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That's my sentiment exactly, ADHD, while likely also present, may have contributed some, but his narcissistic tendencies were on full display the entire debate and has been for years. I also think he may have some sociopathic tendencies as well, as his father Fred Sr had it, and Mary and Fred the III both sounded the alarm about several folks in the Trump family have mental illnesses. I think I read last year that Don's mother was psychotic or something of the sort.
However, didn't even notice his pupils or thought anything was amiss, he was always like this, although I realized later that he did little body movement, let alone the accordion movement of his hands and just gripped the podium hard the whole time and made a bunch of disparaging faces, often wincing, as I was watching him be so cringe worthy.
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One reason I think people in the US at least are so fat is the portion sizes, that is, people think they need to eat a lot per sitting. A case in point, I was watching Kenji Lopez Alt do crab cakes, and he had 3 of them made up, one small, one medium and one larger for him, his wife and 3 year old daughter and several people kept saying they'd eat them all in one sitting, but I think they also forget there will be other sides to go along with the crab cakes too.
That said, I do find I'm watching my portion sizes, especially when it comes to pasta and rice as both are hypoglycemic. Pasta is not as high as white rice though as it runs a 46, whilst white rice is 64, so keep the portion size to about a cup to a cup and a half of either, but not both at one sitting though.
That said, adding protein to either will reduce the hypoglycemic tendency of each, or so I've read and that is often how I eat pasta and rice when eating white rice. I do white and brown, but brown takes longer to cook though.
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I used to vote republican when I was first voting back in 1983-84 as an 18 year old and I believe I voted for Regan in his second term, sadly, he became a laughing stock as Alzheimer's crept in during his second term, even when the attempted assassination tried to bump him off, but got James Brady instead, injuring him badly.
Then in the 90's, my late father, a retired AF major (retiring in 1970/71) and I were at McChord near the BX and had been discussing politics and were both frustrated at both parties, the Dems for rolling over too easily and allowing the Repubs to walk all over them, and the repubs for being bullies to the dems. Mind you, this was nothing to what we are experiencing now and it was then that we all, mother included decided to go Democrat, and that's how I've been voting since then.
As for this election (which is tomorrow as I type this on Monday morning Nov 4th), I believe that the polls to be a very, very rough guide to what might be the outcome of the election and as Claire pointed out, last minute decisions and I also think many may not be honest to themselves about whom they are voting for, but some may find that in the wake of late last week when Trump threatened Liz Cheney by having a firing squad point guns at her face that some may find that they just can't pull the trigger on Trump at the very last moment.
As a result, the so called tight race could not be as tight as polls show due to the answers folks give the pollsters and some of that can be wildly off due to untruthful responses from folks being polled.
That said, I don't think it'll be a blow out either for Harris/Walz, but I DO think she will win, but it might not be as close as it seems now, based on the polls. We will only know once votes are tallied, beginning tomorrow and over the next couple of days.
For the record, voted all blue down the ballot, and that includes Harris/Walz.
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Agree with some of the comments in this sub thread in that the drivers (that is the delivery drivers) do make a decent-ish wage. Back when I worked for Domino's almost 40 years ago (began there in 1984), you could make $3.50/Hr+gas reimbursement (at .21 a mile) and tip, and you'd be making closer to $5.00/Hr when all said and done. In those days, most of the drivers were FT, and often worked a good 40Hr Wk, sometimes more when staff at a shop was short, which could happen due to illness, weather etc or simply super busy. By early 1986, I was let go due to my driving record at that time, thanks to the 30 minute guarantee.
In those days, automation was not a thing at the franchise I worked at and we had electric or gas stone lined ovens, so no conveyor ovens, you used a peel to insert the pizzas on wire screens, rotated them on occasion, and then pulled them out and slipped them into a box that was already folded.
In those days, the 30 minute guarantee was still in effect, but it was different than what it is now in that a driver can take I take several pizzas, with cokes and try to hit up to 3, I think residences in the 30 minute guarantee, that is, the clock began when we hung up so adding in the pie making, baking and then deliver all in 30 minutes. Drivers would then have to blow lights, stop signs etc and too many accidents, lawsuits etc ensued and by I think 1986-87, the company had to drop the 30 minute guarantee due to that. It did wreck my driving habits at the time. I understand it's back, but now the delivery area per shop is smaller than I think they were in my day, and the guarantee is now done differently, and is safer than it once was.
But agree, it was a grind for the drivers especially as some of us got to help with making pizzas, answering phones, fill the coke cups (strictly coke) and place into coke caddies, and hand wash stuff in the back, and help refill the bins for the pizza line. When I was to close, often didn't get out until 3am as everything had to be washed and stacked to dry.
As for the quality of the pies, they were never anything special back in the 80's, and I have always found other pies better overall and their quality, such as it was, did slip for a while.
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Totally agree with everything you've said.
As one who does not have an average IQ, but did get some college in years ago, struggled in school, barely graduated HS and voted for Regan in my first election as an 18 year old, and later in either the late 80's, or early 90's we decided to go Democratic, rather than Republicans due to how the Republican party was then, riding roughshod over the Democratic party, and the Dems at that point in time, allowed it as they rolled over and let the Republicans run over them.
I'm also neurodivergent and can see through most BS and saw Trump for who/what he is as he's clearly coming across as a petulant man-child of about 8 in an adult body, but a lot of the rhetoric he's been coming up with, like Project 2025 could very well be red herrings (hope so). I do see Jen's point that the Democratic party spoke over most folks heads, though to be fair, I don't think Kamala, nor Tim did so much, but the rest of the party, outside of Jamie Raskin and a few others, but the overall message was, white, upper class, college educated and not to the majority of working class, middle class folks and thus, failed to connect.
I voted for Harris/Walz, BTW as I didn't trust, let alone can't stand Trump, so there is that, let alone Vance and his weirdness.
Agree, time to self reflect and then figure out what is next and begin the blow back/push back and start the slow process to right the ship to keep it from sinking into the abyss.
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@foxguyday The Tubers don't tell, but most sponsors will dictate how the sponsorship ad is to go and most creators then let anyone, related or not to what the channel is all about help them get big.
Very few do it any other way. Casey Ladelle is one of the few that will NOT take just anyone for a sponsorship. He ONLY works with a select few as they have a nice, symbiotic type relationship where he gets to dictate how the add should go. One of them is Ecoflow, and he's used plenty of their stuff, some he's bought, others not, but can vouch, for real that they are good, rather than what the company may say is good (when it may not be). He has had to ditch one company for a lie they did about their product.
Casey is too honest for many, but he gets them from time to time to help with the free rescues on occasion.
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@TheLittlered1961 Two year old comment, I know, but this is for everyone else that stumbles on this documentary, It was actually shot prior to the eruption, and the day of the eruption, then footage after the eruption and then assembled into this piece later that same year, yes, 1980. So this is what/how things were back then on the local level in broadcast history then.
Not defending it but taking into account WHEN it was done. Yes, there is likely other footage that may be better but all of the footage used here was from news footage, and some of that may be from film still (16mm), but a lot of that was early ENG (Electronic News Gathering) video footage, using 3/4" tape, and shot in standard def, but this documentary was also upscaled to 1080 (1920x1080) resolution for YT from the standard def 480 4:3 aspect ratio material so the footage has softened some.
Again, take it for what it was, in 1980 and appreciate it for that, a documentary of a huge volcanic eruption.
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Need to make one, small correction. When you say where there is little to no rain, than say, the west coast. Not true if you live in Oregon or Washington, on the west side of both states as it's often raining much of the time from October through early April before it begins to lessen up and dry out, which is only from late June/early July through early October. So flat roofs do not always do well here. Even in SoCal where it does not rain a lot, the roofs bake in the sun for days on end, and you won't know if it's potentially leaking until it actually rains.
There is a college not too far from where I live that was initially built in 1965, with subsequent buildings built in the next few years afterwards in the same, original Mansard Roof style. Some have been torn down and replaced with new, better designed buildings, others have been added onto (the library building, which was originally built in 1967) and others are much newer, and of those that were of the original set of buildings (built between 1965-1971 or so) several have been torn down and rebuilt and the college has also expanded with additional buildings since then, but none match the original Mansard style, and for good reason.
Roof issues with many of them, and thus were forced to tear down and rebuild. One recently was torn down as it had the roof redone a few years back, only to begin leaking again 2-3 years ago, so it became short term storage and last year, was down down to make way for a new building. All were/are single story, but all the newer structures are 3-4 stories, some with basements but took in our inclement weather in mind, especially during fall through early spring. Early on, without gutters, down spouts, it was a muddy mess due to rain pouring off the roofs through drain channels around the roof perimeter, pouring with gusto to the dirt below whenever it rains.
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Having used both 10, and 11, I have no issues with either. If you are having issues with snooping from Microsoft, then turn off all the settings deal with snooping, such as turn off your webcam, microphone etc.
Currently, I have both Pro and Home on 2 computers. Pro is on my desktop, but for some reason, my Dell Latitude laptop has Home. Both were purchased refurbished within the year. I have run most flavors of Windows, from Windows 3.1 through 11, minus ME, outside of the 2-3 times I borrowed a buddy's PC when at his house, Likely not run Win 2000, NT, 8, or 8.1, but have run everything else and have not has any usage issues with any of them. Vista was OK, slow and power hungry, but OK, as long as you ran the 64 bit version. XP was great, The little I've run of 7 was fine, liked 10/11 better than 7 IMO.
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Back when these were new in the states in 2012, I was enamored by them as I had a soft spot for Fiats since the early 70's when a priest we were friends with had a bright red Familiare, the wagon variant of the 128, then a fairly new modern FWD, overhead cam car with a transverse engine with a separate transaxle and a typical these days, McPherson Strut suspension. Originally introduced in 1969 and sold here in the US until at least 1978 and was replaced by the Strada that was sold here until 1980 if I recall.
Anyway, drove the basic naturally aspirated 1.4 Sport version with the 5spd manual and it was very punchy for the horsepower. 100 horses and a curbweight of something like 2200 Lbs allowed it to be sprightly in performance. If I could have afforded one, I'd have snapped it up. I also got to drive the 500L as well, that one had the turbo and belted out 130HP to compensate for the larger/heavier vehicle. It was a blast too, though I would have lowered it a touch, added an strut stabilizer and a "go" pedal to tighten up the pedal response from a dead stop, but leave it stock otherwise.
If I had to replace my Mazda Protege 5 wagon today, I'd look into either the 500L with manual, or the Renegade with the 1.4 and manual, hopefully it came in the trailhawk trim as it actually has true 4x4 drive line, and thus the most capable of the Renegades.
Either way, these were viewed I think much like the old Yugo, as disposable cars and were treated as such. Word was, if kept maintained they did last, and yes, were largely based on the body of the 127 in hatchback form, but with the drive train of the 128, at least here in the US, which meant in the beginning, the base models had the 1.1L 4, the GVX for the sportier (?) 1.3, which only had a few horsepower over the 1.1. Yes, even then, the timing belt had to be changed at something like every 50K miles, or until they improved the belt so the intervals got longer between recommended changes, but so many drove them without proper maintenance so they got the reputation they had because of that mindset. I think these 500's, in the US anyway were likely thought much the same way.
I'd still like to one, as long as the maintenance has been kept up.
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I think Wes may be just before the millennial generation. I think he's in his first half of his 40's, so born in the Gen X, which goes from 1965-1980, yes, that's right, he is likely the same generation as me, born in 1965. We both like many songs from CSN&Y. Millennial generation is from 1980-1996, with some sources saying as late as early 2000's, but most do say, to 1996. Given that context, his parents may have known about the Kent State debacle in 1970, if not were teens, early 20's then.
As a context, my parents are of a generation born in the late 20's to mid 30's, married in 1954, had their first child, my oldest sister in 1956, had 2 more by 1959, and me in 1965. Dad served for about a while in Vietnam in 1968, retiring in 1970-71 and died in 1998 at 70. Being the youngest, I'm 58, just turned 58 last month. The 2 remaining sisters are in their mid 60's, one died of brain cancer 2 years ago at 62.
I have nieces and a nephew that all are in their late 20's to early 30's at their youngest and the oldest ones 40-45 years old now.
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@Darxide23 Yeah, I can see that, but reading up on all that is considered for Autism, there is a lot to it and they all share some of the traits, that is especially true for the brain and how it has more neurons than most neurotypicals tend to have.
That said, very high functioning, and I mean, what would be considered borderline Asperger types may not need to mask nearly as much in daily life as others on the spectrum, thus may not get diagnosed as readily, which was more likely for older folk now in their 40's and up, but still struggle mightily in many ways to this day, which can affect how we get/keep work for starters.
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I'm old enough to remember before the internet where if you wanted to do a deep dive in something, you had to go to your local library, sometimes to look things up online via Wois, among other services, but mostly to utilize the library and its card catalogs (remember those?), the Microfiche machines (also, remember those?) and of course, at times you had to go to a basement to use the stacks, or at our library, you could go down and be in the stacks and there were tables to use, now a dumb waiter can bring up the stuff to the patron but the staff had access to the basement stacks and would bring stuff up to the front counter.
Now, I can access all that online through the library's online website, including image archives. I've used these archives a lot of late for several video projects where history is the main subject, as in, seeing photos of my old community I grew up in with images going back 50+ years.
Some of these were also pulled from the community's historical site for many photos. For project on the history of Christmas lights, I utilized much of the image archives at the library online and just spent time recently adding attributes and resizing for later editing.
Also, being autistic, I'm more prone to do these deep dives, even if it meant heading to the library in the physical sense to gain access to historical materials.
What I DO see a lot is folks not using their brains and ask questions that in many cases, a few minutes online could have gotten them the answer they were seeking easily enough. Also, common sense does seem to be lacking and scamming, while older than the hills, seems to have become much more prevalent than it used to, and most normal folks seem much more prone to fall for them, rather than critically thinking, which is something many schools are failing to teach folks.
The blame is many and from many corners so no one component is at fault, but a myriad of faults that seem to be in collusion to making critical thinking be a thing of the past for many folks. The computer is not to blame, but CAN make it easier for some folks to turn off their brain than to use it for some tasks.
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Agree with Leo here, way too many conspiracies out there on Windows. I've used most versions of Windows going back to 3.1, That includes 95/98/xp/Vista, some 7/10, and 11. 11 came by default when I had to replace my aging 4th gen i5 box unexpectedly in late 2023 with a 7th gen i5 box with 11 already installed, yes, refurbished. My older 4th gen was the same when I bought that in 2019. 10, 11, mostly the same, some changes like control panel changed in 10 but not enough of a change to make much of a difference in use for me. So what's the gripe?
I am now on a home brew box, based on the Core 7 Ultra, Z890 chipset motherboard and DDR5 memory, running Windows 11 Pro. I took my key from my retail copy of 10 and just used it to get 11 so no need to pay for 11 for this build, and yes, it's activated and works fine.
Some versions of Windows will readily blue screen as it's an all or nothing proposition, earlier variants were like this, but ever since they made it so you can just shut down an individual program that crashed, and carry on, it's gotten better, along with being capable of multitasking, it's been fine, all of it from a useage standpoint. I, like Leo don't see what the fuss is all about.
Is Microsoft ideal? No. It's wanting to snoop, but you CAN turn stuff off if you want/need to, won't affect your ability to use Windows. Why so difficult with making the switch and believing conspiracy theories is beyond me.
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@goober69er Not when you go to the riot WITH a gun, with intent to use it it isn't. Now, I'm not saying the 3 guys Kyle shot were innocent, they were at the riot, causing mayhem, so they are just as guilty, regardless of the reason, even if that reason is "justified".
Years ago, after doing some research for a class about being radical and rioting as it pertained to the Vietnam war, it's been proven largely riots do not work as intended, and when it does work, it's short lived as all it really seems to do is drive a wedge further into society.
Mind you, in very limited ways, rioting is a way to invoke a change, but not the way to do it.
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One area where you should upgrade is the OS itself, that is, if you want to go online, most browsers will not support non supported OS'. That is, they force you to use an older, outdated version of say, Firefox.Only one browser will work with a modern version is Opera, but I've had issues getting it to download, let alone work in XP. Thus, the old eMachines I was using as a media server of sorts, eventually got scrapped as of last year.
The PC was old enough to run, not just a Celeron (I had upgraded it to a P4 in 2012), but also ran IDE drives but no longer had a working copy of XP on disc and what was on the drive was not working correctly by bringing up a sign in prompt when I had no password setup.
I also had to upgrade from Vista when my old Dell Studio XPS from 2009 took a dump in 2019 by a failing hard drive, Windows 10, and now 11, so what's the big issue? I'm not as bad about change as I once was, but I still don't like change for changes sake, but don't mind if change is needed when what you'd been using simply does not work anymore.
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A lot of you missed totally the point, I watched what was going on yesterday instead of doing more important stuff and the blame is with Trump, he I believe gave the order, do no harm, let 'em in to the police for they are trained to comply with orders. I don't think it has anything to do with being black/white at this point, but a bunch of thugs that follow Trump at his every beck and call. I think if he hadn't done what he did, then I'm sure many of them would have been shot during the attempt itself and arrested. One woman was shot inside as she was attempting to get in through a window of a door, don't know if the shot was intentional or not, suspect it may well have been. It was WELL known for weeks, if not since the election itself that this may happen, and yet something like 2 hours passed until the national guard etc were called in.
Something's not right here and I can safely say, Trump was in deep in this.
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@filmpjesman1 The problem is, you are trading one source for another as the electricity you USE to use that stove can come from FUEL, be it gas, or coal. Not so bad if it is hydro based (water), but the NE is not known for that much, most of their electricity comes from gas or coal (used to), or nuclear when it was not as controversial as it is now here in the US. Think on THAT for a bit.
I have an electric glass top and it was NOT my choice, came with the house, with exception of the shitty wall furnace from Williams that is gas, the rest of the ENTIRE house is electric, and is the bulk of my utility bill during the winter months, and part of that is for cooking, and heating (three electric baseboard heaters, 2 in bedrooms, one in the laundry porch and does not work). The rest is with either LED or fluorescent lighting.
Now, mind you, I live where hydro is king (Pac NW) so it's not as bad, and if the power DOES go out, then I can't even cook but do have a single burner gas burner (butane) that I can use and my grill, when I have gas for it.
The big issue is not the gas, but the LACK of ventilation. I have NONE in my unrenovated kitchen from the 1920's and when I try to reverse sear a steak say, or cook in a wok, I can set off the smoke alarm, and it's at the FRONT of the house (kitchen is in the back of the house) and that IS the issue I think, more than gas in and of itself.
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@TheLittlered1961 That is your opinion.
No, I never made a career of working TV, tried to but it didn't work out. Had an internship at Ch 7, a work study job at Ch. 9 and worked briefly at a podunk TV station in Medford OR in the mid 90's but that was it. There was a guy in TV with the same name, but he was quite a bit older than me. In 1980, I was merely 15, so am not exactly a spring chicken either.
As to the production here, the Tech/production quality is more or less the same. While I agree the narration could have been better, the music was fine but it WAS a product of that time, plain and simple and the equipment was bulkier/heavier than it is today. For starters, they just didn't have the equipment we have today and simply made use of the equipment available to most stations at that time. I think they did more than fine with what they had to work with at that time, remember, the vast majority of the footage came from news, places like KREM, KGW, and other stations, plus some footage may have come from the geologists themselves, so again, they were working with what footage they had available to them and I think months after the explosion, they did a quite commendable job of it despite it being made that fall.
At that time, I was heavily into Ch. 7 news.
Point is, you can't judge a documentary from 42 years ago with the production values of today as one, the equipment is totally different then Vs now, and two, generally speaking, production quality was different, and personally speaking I find today's production values too slick for its own good. I don't watch broadcast TV these days but do watch a l ot of YouTube though.
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Hey nice! I live here, though not in the hoods you went to, like Hilltop, Lincoln, McKinley Hill and the Eastside. I live in what is known as the Central District, a mostly white working class area, that also happens to be very convenient to the freeway and the 6tth Ave business district. Agree with others down below that this town, which has been an industrial town in its past, and may still be in some ways, still reflects is past with a lot of blue collar/working class folks, middle to upper middle class and richer folks up in the north end but in the 80's, this town was riddled badly with mostly the Bloods and Crips that came up from California, invading Hilltop and I one evening while at school for evening classes at Bates downtown, saw a drug deal, out in the open on the corner by the main entrance to the school itself in I think fall of 1988.
Tacoma as a whole is much better now than it used to be and for a very long time, I hated this place and so wanted to get out of this place, to quote the Animals. I eventually moved to Seattle in 1996, moved out in 2016 back here to buy my house in Central and have come to reconcile this town for what it is these days and have come to love it and appreciate what it has to offer. Through the print screen feature, Photoshop and zooming in greatly to barely read the street signs, I was able to find the Min Grocery you show in this video, thanks to Google Earth. :-) You went past East wise, an architectural salvage place and Portland Ave Nursery, been to both of those a couple of years ago.
Agree, a lot of work needs to be done with the homeless, even Seattle has that bad now too.
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@nighteule What you are saying is all true, but one fact I forgot to mention is that the electric grid as it is now is fragile here in the US and may be on the precipice of failing completely as we continue to move to electric everything, and if it fails, then what, unless you have a generator or have solar that you can continue to use when the power is out, THAT factor alone is not the answer to blindly ditch fossil fuels completely.
Until induction can work on a wide range of pans like a wok well and manufacturers make the elements big enough to cover the entire pan bottom, warping is going to be prevalent, I have radiant glass top and yes, pans warp, even my cast iron pan warped when I cooked on calrod (it's my Mom's vintage 10" skillet from the 50's I believe).
Also, to get wok hei at home, need a small torch (can be had for oh, $20 or so) and use it to generate that wok hei.
Also, in many jurisdictions, the wires are still overhead wiring (like it is here) and I live in an old neighborhood that is mostly working class, fortunately, the electric here has only gone out a half dozen times for short periods in the past nearly 7 years I've lived here.
At the moment, I do run 2 window air conditioners at times during the summer and unlike California, Washington St has not had the brownouts or had to force people to run certain appliances at certain times when demand is lower so there is that. I am thinking of ditching my gas furnace (a Williams wall furnace that's old) for a heat pump mini split when I can afford it and maybe move to a gas stove as I have it, might as well use it, right?
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One thing to be aware of is some software may cause Windows to crash, or the software itself crashes due to a conflict say in windows. The software (or driver) is often not Windows fault (unless it's generic drivers for many third party devices where they get it from the manufacturer). At that point, as Leo says, it's out of MS's hands.
A good example is your graphics card may cause issues with Windows, blame the card manufacturer for the interface/driver, not Microsoft for the issue.
Due to a wide range of products that can run in Windows, things will happen that are not Microsoft's fault.
I've run most variants of Windows going back to Windows 3.1 and have had no issues with any of them as far as usage goes. I do welcome improvements, such as being able to multitask (couldn't do so initially due to where the development was with Windows, and PC's to start with).
So getting your panties in a bunch does not serve you well at all. Just learn to roll with it and move on, and as long as Microsoft can take care of the more egregious bugs that affect more than 1% of users, or prevents the software to running correctly, leave it be. Also, sometimes your device is just bad and causing vexing issues with the OS.
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Janitor Queen Hold on Queen, In case you have not heard, Merrick Garland has a lawsuit against Texas, and Greg Abbott over the abortion law there as Greg CANNOT disregard federal law, he MUST abide by it, plain and simple. I'm guessing the rest, evidence is piling up and hopefully enough by now to begin trials. Biden has laws to force states to issue mask and/or vaccine mandates to get Covid under control, especially the Delta variant. I sincerely believe once we get closer to 80% immunity, we'll pull out, and by FORCING people to get vaccine or else loose your job may do just that.
I totally agree, as a DEMOCRAT that too many are being too kind and rolling over under the republicans, and that's been going on for at least the past 30+ years. The big difference between Dems and Repubs is that the Dems have kept the left at arm's length, while the Repubs have let themselves hop in bed with the right, and look where it's taken them.
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I largely agree, change for changes sake, not so much, but change that truly improves a product yes, I'm all for it.
Let's take Windows for instance, I've used most versions over the years, going back to Windows 3.1, 3.11 for Workgroups, Windows 95/98/SE, dabbled in ME/2000, XP, Vista (64), Win 7 (some), skipped 8/8.1Windows 10 and 11. Some definitely better than others, ME was alright but nothing special, XP, excellent, Vista, not nearly as bad as some made it out to be, though to be honest, I think likely the 64 bit version being better than the 32 bit variant (more stable, less BSOD's), 10/11 I find to be more or less equal.
Sometimes, the changes made within a version while it's in support are nebulous and require a bit of research to find them when moved can be annoying or removed all together as well but overall, I migrate from one version to another without too much difficulty.
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Totally agree with Leo here, have done much the same over time. I began this over 30 years ago when I got my first machine, a 386 in 1994. To be frank, not good at backing up (would have save me mucho time later when I had to restore or upgrade).
Fortunately, I have a memory like an elephant for many things and have actually lost very little data over time fortunately. I've had hard drives die on me, including on infamous ceramic platter drive from IBM. Platter dust caused sticktion with the heads and thus the drive would not always readily spin up so clue was My Documents would not always stay active. That was in 2001 IIRC.
Currently, gathering the parts for a new build and will have to do this again.
Best to reinstall all software from scratch, install a fresh copy of your OS as the specs for one PC change how the OS/software installs, and thus will be different on another machine and no real way to guarantee its functionality on the new machine.
Now, if you are simply reinstalling on the same machine, but on a new drive, then a full image backup copied over is all you need.
Once the new PC is up and running I have GOT to go through all the drives and sort/clean them all out so I can find stuff. Stuff gets moved around, shuttled from one drive to another as far as my data/files go and it's gotten difficult to find stuff. It's been needing to be done for a long time and been putting it off, so this year, not going to put off and just get it done one afternoon.
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@rs12official I don't mind LED in the right context, have had CFL, though most were just OK, but did have an early CFL from Lights of America back in the mid 80's and it was a square ballast that screwed into a lamp socket and the lamp itself was replaceable. Sadly, it was a very early electronic ballast, I think a form of preheat if I recall and it didn't last much beyond 2 years as the early electronic ballasts were not quite ready for prime time then.
That said, Where incandescent lamps roamed, LED is now a suitable replacement as there was a time I disliked them due to the light output, but they've improved greatly in the past decade or more. Been using them since 2014 or so when both the light output and the price made then a suitable replacement for incandescent bulbs.
But for the right application, still linear and circline lamps still rule, especially if preheat, with rapid start being second best. Basically, I'm lighting agnostic.
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Not a gamer, but am a content creator. So for me, it's been Intel, and am building a new PC based on Intel Core Ultra CPU and just today, picked up the Intel Alchemist A770, wanted B580 but they are so elusive at the moment. Only Micro Center has them, but not available online, gotta go into a store to get one, and I live in a state where they do not exist (yet). So the A770 it is for 4K video.
Being that I multitask as this is also my main PC, I do research etc on it when not editing so it has 65GB of DDR5 memory. Since it's the new Core Ultra, it requires a MB that has the new socket (1851) and chipset (Z890) and DDR5 memory, which is 6400/CL 30.
At one time, had considered the Ryzen 7 but ended up back with Intel. I run now a 7th gen i5 processor in a Dell SFF Optiplex and it does OK, not great in anything productivity wise.
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@Ziegfried82 Yep. Not that I have flat roofs, but the college near me has them (built in the Mansard roof style popular in the mid to late 60's, if not the early 70's) and they have had problems with them, I think from the beginning when original campus was built in 1965, so now nearly 60 years old.
The architect should have known this as he's done at least one other building in the area that did get an award in the 50's. The area, Puget Sound where it rains a lot during the fall/early spring and not only did he used flat roofs, but he also used rain channels, instead of pipes so when it would rain, the rain would pout out of the openings and onto the ground, creating muddy puddles where there was no pavement, which was more the case when the campus was still fairly new. Several of the buildings have been torn down and rebuilt, others repurposed etc over time as the campus expanded. From the get go, it was a bad design by the fact that it was not built for our region and its weather.
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Native Washingtonian and grew up in University Place, a suburb of Tacoma (now a city) and lived nearly 20 years in Seattle before finding a home I could afford in Tacoma itself, mind you, it's a lower cost working class neighborhood, but very convenient to the freeways and major destinations in the city itself. I was lucky to find a modest 3 bed small house at the bottom of the market cost wise in 2016 at a price I could well afford and right before prices took off here as folks began finding homes here and costs went up significantly. Now many homes are twice they were in 2016. Rent has become ridiculous as well, but nothing like it was in 2016 in Seattle where a typical 1 bedroom of about 600SqFt went for 1100, or more.
Agree that progressive politics has gone too far with a lot of bleeding hearts, political correctness and lots of passive aggression permeating the west coast in general, and the homeless.
SO glad Jay Inslee is out, was not a fan if his policies and prefer folks like the former Dan Evans, Dixie Lee Ray, Booth Gardner etc, and Charlie Royer (Seattle Mayor in the 70's and early 80's), sadly all are no more some 40+ years on... In those days, politics was not so far left as it seems to be now unfortunately. I think if all three states weren't so progressive etc, we'd all be better off.
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First off, love Jen Psaki, she is one smart cookie. As for Biden, my feeling is that a bad showing, once does not make it so. The best thing is to look at how Biden does on the day to day. Even Obama had one bad showing at a televised debate, yet, he still won. So the best is do a wait and see.
I think it's a fool's errand to make a rash, quick decision over what is often considered a one off performance. That said, WE need to not reelect Trump back into office.
At the end of the day, with both candidates, their age is definitely a potential liability, but I find Biden's is less worrisome than Trump's due to the fact that I'd rather have Kamala Harris become our president, should Biden were to die while in office. Trump's running mate, whomever it may be, can, and is likely to be just as evil and will work to take down America should Trump pass while in office. I'd rather have Biden and end up with Kamala as president to finish out the term at the very least.
But as has been said before, WE the people are now the front line to ensuring our democracy is saved (or not), Biden and others can help out, but we are it if we want to keep our country free.
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Having looked at this car, while itself a nice looking ride as far as body style goes, and one of the better looking GM vehicles of the period, this one requires way more than it appears to need at first glance.
I think the ONLY saving grace here is the frame hasn't been totally rotted out, in fact, it's still largely intact and solid, the body, not so much.
Being that it began life as a local car to Bradenton area, then up in Michigan, it's got rust from both top and bottom. Top from being exposed to the salt air if it's been on the beaches enough times or has lived ON the beach for a while, but not well kept rinsed over time. Then it's been salted among the bottom side by being in the rust belt before coming back here.
It almost requires a clean total body replacement, seeing how rotted out the windshield is, and the bubbling/rust showing on other parts of the roof and A pillars. Likely some of the upper structure may be compromised.
Anyway, would be good to know the outcome of this one. It's a cool car I agree. Totally agree, the car likely has 170+K and smoking and badly leaking from many orifices.
BTW, love your descriptions and word usage, not to mention your goofy sense of humor.
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@JohnWilliams-wr3pc Yup, had that happen to my Mazda P5 back in the summer of '12, thankfully, no damage other than the thermostat itself needing to be replaced. Chooched along fine until the nipple to the upper hose came off, I JB welled that back together and that lasted a while longer until the hose would not stay on the upper bib, so at that point, the radiator got replaced, and yep, the car began to overheat, but what saved the say was running the heat full blast so the heater core took some of the pressure off the main radiator, and that saved my motor.
Still drive that car some 10 later with 193K+ miles on the clock and it still runs fine.
As you say, when the thermostat closes, it'll spew out of any orifice it'll find, that means where hoses get clamped to the motor etc and that's what happened when I opened my hood when the car overheated that first time in 2012.
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When I worked IT at a 2 year college, they did the 3 pass wipe of the drives. This is due to they often get reused in computers sent to surplus as boot boxes only, no OS or anything, just a wiped drive. For computers not heading to either scrap or surplus, wiped drives may be put in and then reimaged for use for another employee.
This is most likely to not just a single format, but may add in a random character(s) as well so NO critical info can be found on the drives, once the computer leaves the campus for surplus. Similar is done when a drive is to be disposed of, drill or hammer the drive so it can't be used, especially if it no longer works (at that time, 2 or so years ago, mechanical drives were still in use). I think these days if SSD drives are used, they just break them when they are to be disposed of, or as said, they do the full wipe and then sell the surplus PC/laptop with an empty SSD.
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@billbradley2480 I have that issue too, but it's been life long, and this did not bother me and I think it's due to not being right on the edge and I see ground below, which helps. My problem is that my balance has always been off, but not at 60, it's gotten worse, and I only have one good eye due to congenital rubella from the 60's so heights and precarious positions have always been my nemesis.
Add in autism, just some films where they peer over a cliff, or a stair railing, can set off lightheadedness. Either way, this was not a problem. Rarely this channel never totally bothers me when they do precarious rescues. This does look sketchy indeed, not gonna lie.
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Seeing what this is all about and I don't need to watch further, I am ashamed with this guy featured here and unfortunately, my generation is now the most republican generation there is, and it's not even the Boomers, it's Gen X, those of us in our 40's and 50's for the most part (those of us that were born between 1965 or so, to the mid 80's) have gone so far right, or should I say, many of us have. I'm a minority in that I'm a moderate/centrist, but do lean somewhat left. I abhor the extremes on both ends of the political spectrum, but the right are the worst in my mind.
I also blame the conservative church for much of this as the Republican party has jumped into bed with the religious right, especially with the evangelical and fundamentalist churches. A sad eulogy back in 2007 when Jerry Falwell Sr passed away when an announcer on NPR ruminated that he gave voice to the religious right and the republicans jumped into bed in the late 70's and it's only gotten worse since then. This is why I don't go to church anymore myself. Jerry Jr has been caught with another woman and he and his wife had sex with their pool boy or some such and he's since been kicked out of being president of Liberty University that his dad founded in 1971. He's 58 himself.
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I've had to say no to several folks, but within the gay dating sites, some have not updated their photo and still look young, when in fact, they are not, or use someone's photo as if they are that person, and many are so desperate and want to jump into bed, right away, or state they are so lonely in their profiles, I take it all as warnings and walk away.
I've even run into guys who've gotten into relationships and were abused, yet seemed to not understand that getting into another one without getting to know the person is a bad idea, even if they were mentally and emotionally and physically abused, yet are willing to jump into another one without due caution. Not that I'm dangerous, but I'm aware they are going to be damaged goods and don't want to get involved. I have enough issues of my own being nuerodivergent.
So am well aware there are less than honest folks on the web, so caveat emptor.
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@ezgolf1764 If not mistaken, you don't reduce the pasta water, just boil your pasta as usual, then add it to a saute pan (a 3" tall straight sided pan), that has had bacon or prosciutto cooked in it, then you add the pasta, meat, egg, and a splash or two of pasta water and the cheese and stir, then add the freshly cracked pepper, that's it in a nutshell. At least that's how I do it, and I think Kenji Lopez-Alt does it siimurely.
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dandanthetaximan OK, I was wrong. Because he was talking about multiple LP sets of the 60's and not being familiar with this particular LP, I assumed it might've been a reissue, when in fact, it's a US pressing, not sure if original or not as London is used here in the US, Decca in most of Europe, thanks to Discogs, though it may still be a reissue, but a later issue, perhaps from the late 70's or early 80's, assuming it was issued that long.
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@TheLittlered1961 OK, you do have point, sort of. I'm saying you can't compare a news documentary of the time with today, plain and simple, you can't as one, the production values were different, plus, news today has devolved to trash news and sensationalism for the most part, back then, news was still by and large, objective and impartial, and three, what could be done technically was not as advanced as it is today, nor as portable so there was only so much one can do, and add to that, they built this within months of the explosion, which I have no issue with in and of itself.
Could they have done better? Yes, they could have but I found it fine for a news based documentary where much of the footage came from outside of the station back in 1980 and I took it for when it was produced at that time, which is totally different from what is expected today.
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I'd say, a little research on your part would have been wise. The 2 comments below say pretty much the same thing, your PC is fine, outside of the CPU, and even that challenge is not insurmountable for the end user to circumvent.
A case in point, I bought 2 refurbished computers, one a 7th gen Core i5 processor in the small form factor Dell Optiplex desktop last fall, and it was already upgraded to Windows 11 Pro. Today, bought an 8th gen Core i5 based laptop that was upgraded to Windows 11. Both came with SSD drives, the desktop an NVME based M.2 drive, the laptop is SATA based M.2 and both came kitted with 16GB of DDR4 RAM. While not for the overall long haul, they will more than suffice for the next couple of years at least and both cost less than $250 each.
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My stance with Vance is one, he was schooled by Peter Theil, secondly, he is smarmy, he is changing directions to suit his needs/whims. A case in point as mentioned earlier here, he's indicated he disliked Trump in 2016, but once he was nominated, he became beholden to Trump.
Hard to say if he is any worse/better than Trump, but his sticking his wet finger into the wind to feel which way it blows and then changes his tune is off putting.
Plus, when he did that public video where he ordered donuts, he was really, really awkward, socially inept. Not certain if real or made up, but he was not coming across as comfortable in this role.
What George is saying about the future possibly with Vance, I agree that he could be worse than Trump as one, he has the smarts to follow through but who really knows though?
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@Flyinghook Except he's not always using a torque wrench, so the verbal click. I don't know if Eric O was the first, but he's the first I've heard do that, and even now, he barely does it anymore, and when he does, he simply makes the sound, or uses an actual torque wrench. It was him that I first heard of this, then other mechanics began to follow suit, or so it seems, and I personally think it's over used now.
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@nikolaivasilev7371 Yes, but all of the support technology like evacuating the air via pump didn't exist until the early 1900's if not mistaken. Did a lot of research on this technology several years ago, the discovery of mercury etc all took time to develop once the realization that some materials glowed when exposed to light being the beginning of the development. It would take until 1935 and GE to get the project finished up in time for the 1939 World's Fair. I, too am still fascinated by old tech fluorescent lamps, fortunately, you can still get the old T12 lamps at places like Home Depot still, though T8 and T5 are more plentiful in the US, and yes, both of these "newer" type lamps have been around almost as long as the T12 lamps were.
You mostly saw these smaller diameter lamps were for commercial uses, rather than in the home and the advantage is, more light from less tubes with both the T8 and T5, and yes, you can get them to do the preheat start with the right ballast.
Currently have one 4Ft fixture in my kitchen, but it's a newer T8, instant start fixture of the generic plastic wrap around lens, essentially a generic basic fixture and would love to find a vintage preheat one for that space.
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@GaisaSanktejo I think that USED to be the case for the large part. Just don't go for the less expensive SSD drives, like the 120GB models, go with a 500GB version (or larger), they can be had for $50-ish bucks on sale from some good, name brand models, however, the Samsung EVO series will be a bit more but still a reasonable $70 for the same capacity on sale. That's about what I paid for the $500GB EVO 870 SSD that's in my old Dell Optiplex 9020.
Longevity is I think improved as well and MOST spinners will last you on average, 3-5 years. I had a Western Digital 500GB spinner that began dropping sectors at 10 years and it was corrupting the OS and it got to where I could not go a proper boot partition as disc part was corrupted.
I bring this up as the Patriot Burst 120GB SSD that came with the PC (picked up refurbished with Windows 10 Pro) got to 70% and began to slow the PC down to the point that it was unusable. Most drives now aren't as bad, with new features to reduce the slow downs for SSD's, but Spinners will not make up the access speeds of a good SSD (internal, direct SATA or MVME, with MVME being faster still).
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That's a good way to go when it comes to YT. I watch it all the time, but am very selective about what I watch. If you go just by the posts on Trump (for or against) is a good example. I scroll through the recommendations by YT, and read the title of the recommended video, right now, a lot of push back (or seems anyway) against Trump but meanwhile, no one is putting him in jail and letting the whole thing with him being president commence, so I DO hope the videos that proclaim pushback that could stop Trump materialize, but then again, posts that show they possibly are for him, I just move on past.
It now takes being a critical thinker, sadly, it's becoming not a thing for many folks. I'm old enough to have learned how to be critically thinking and not take stuff at face value. Also, I think being neurodivergent helps.
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In 1980 when that clip was taped (literally, on magnetic tape as digital didn't become a consumer thing until 2 years or so later), I was still in the 9th grade and if memory serves, went Republican as both parents were. Over time, we migrated to the left and went mostly Democrat and that decision was in the early 90's and we have not looked back, but I recall the earliest discussion with my now late father many years ago while out at McChord AFB one day we were in the car as we were out doing some errands, with Mom maybe in the BX but I recall we had a talk and while we both disliked what the Dem's were doing (no backbone), we still felt they were better than the Republicans as they were at that time, running roughshod over the Dem's. That was around the time we switched.
Fast forward to 2007, we've had the Dot com rise and bust, then the housing rise and its fall, then I recall driving home from work one day, Jerry Falwell Sr had just died and I was listening to NPR's Evening Edition on the radio when the announcement that Jerry Sr had just died and the host saying he gave rise to the Christian right (Evangelicals and Fundamentalists) and the Republican party fell into bed with them 40 years earlier (1977 or so). The party has now gotten much worse.
Lauren Beabert has got it all wrong when she claims the left is authoritarian, when in fact, it's the right that is authoritarian, the left is totalitarian. Both political extremes have the same goals (to rule the world), but go at it differently, but with the same goal in mind, The left through atheism, the right through the Christian Evangelicals but in the end, do it MY way or the highway with no compromises (Fundamentalism, with Evangelicals at least willing to compromise, some).
These days, I consider myself a centrist that does lean more left than right. But absolutely abhor the extremes on either political side. Just need to have read both Animal Farm and 1984 to see exactly that.
BTW, recall Dessert Storm/shield wars and the draw down. I distinctly recall seeing the videos of the war while jobs here at home were hard to come by. I never liked either Bushes, but young George "Dubya" was likely the dimmest bulb in the Bush clan and benign overall and left the economy in shambles during the housing bubble and it's subsequent bursting, leaving Obama to do the cleanup.
These days, I will not even vote for the right side anymore as they are so infiltrated with crooks, liars and cheats, like Santos, but if you are an extremist, I will not vote for you, at all, regardless of the left or right affiliation.
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I think it was earlier this year I got an email from a guy that was able to explain where I was, what I was looking at etc as an attempt to get me to be safer online, much of it was actually correct. I was a tad unnerved, but ultimately deleted the email and I think it happened again about a month or so later, and again, I just ignored it.
Yes, I have defender on firewall etc. and so far, I have not noted any attempts that I'm aware of, of folks trying to breach my accounts.
Some like banks, I have had to let go due to lack of any real money coming in that requires such as I've been mostly living off of EBT/Cash, but transitioning to SSDI with PT work to make up the difference so will need to get a bank of some sort soon.
Anyway, another good episode.
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@TacoTuesday4 That is old information as in the past 10-15 years, heat pumps have improved with variable speed fans, improved compressors and can now keep an entire house comfortable, even when the temps are down as low as -10F. The caveat is, how well the house is insulated and sealed up for drafts though, and most can also keep your house cool during the summer months.
This does include mini split systems too, and it also depends on how well they are installed or they can struggle when it gets really cold. Two videos here on YT show this, one guy lives in Massachusetts, the other in Minneapolis MN and both went with cold weather heat pumps and have stayed comfortable during really brutal winters and one I think saved energy, the other just broke even, and both are modern heat pumps. One gent had his installed in 2016, the other in 2020.
Now, thermal heat pumps that utilize the heat in the ground have been around for a long time, but have always been very expensive, air to air based heat pumps have too, but only in the past 10-15 years can do really cold weather well.
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Jessie, I hear you loud and clear. Though I do consider myself a centrist, but with a slight left leaning bent to it, even I can't stand trump. He DOES need to go, and NOW. Something I heard in the past couple of weeks was a video of clips of various interviews of Biden and in one of those clips, he was saying the Democratic party went left in 1972, now THAT I didn't know, but the BIG difference was they didn't drink the koolaid and kept their distance, where as once Jerry Falwell gave voice to the right, the republican party essentially, jumped into bed with them and drank the koolaid and over time got more and more corrupt.
The BIGGEST issue with the Dems is their tendency to roll over and be trod on, believing the "bleeding hearts" out there and it's not gotten them anywhere as they have lost their backbone, thus the republicans have had been able to trod all over the Dems.
I think past year or two had brought the Democrats back around to realize they NEED to stand up to what they believe and NOT let the republicans ride rough shod. SO glad Warnock and Ossoff won yesterday so now Moscow Mitch has his wings clipped, don't trust the man, let alone Lindsey Graham, even though both did the honorable thing and stepped off the gravy train after seeing what transpired yesterday, but a bit too late though and should have done it a LONG time ago.
Being a centrist in my view is being able to see all sides of the picture and react/move accordingly so one can be a moderate, conservative, liberal or progressive as need be where appropriate.
One commentator or interviewer, I think a former police staff or some such did warn that if we invoked the 25th, it might also incite these thugs more so there is that to consider and he may well be right.
Now, we move on, not to forget, but work towards the 20th and do what can be/must be done to deal with trump.
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@chickenfishhybrid44 I lived in an old apartment built in 1913 that initially was a hotel, then it was converted to apartments in the 30's (during the depression) and it had gas stoves, and likely a gas fed boiler for the steam heat, and this was in Seattle.
In Medford OR, I briefly rented a 2 room flat that had a brand new Kenmore gas stove in it, both in the 1990's, and every place since then has had an electric calrod stove, which IS more commonly found in post war or newer rental units. Many new condos have gas in the area, but not all.
The house I lived in had a gas furnace, but electric everything else and it was built in the early 60's so yes, gas stoves are not as common here, but they do exist.
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@layla_2250 While that may be, he is right in that the DOJ needs to get their shit on and do what needs doing and NOT keep running to a judge. Glenn knows those courts as he's likely worked them as a prosecutor for many years and thus will know what needs to be done. He is right about that. I saw that video, and yes, he did inject his own feeling into it a bit, but by the same token, what the DOJ did with the contempt ruling was WRONG. Judge Howell set them straight.
I do think they were still somewhat butt hurt over Bill Barr's weaponizing the dept, but Merrick Garland's wimpiness to go after Trump himself and thus, we have Jack Smith and the special council may not be helping much. That said, I agree, we should have done this 2 years ago and we'd be on the road to recovery by now.
But the fact that Garland DID choose Jack Smith, a no holds barred judge that is non partisan when it comes to convictions will get to the bottom of it, even if he, Merril Howell etc have to force the DOJ to do their part in all this along the way.
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Glad of this as I'm another autistic adult, diagnosed late. Got my assessment back in Sept through the Dept of vocational Rehab and a psychologist who specializes in assessing adults. My best buddy and my oldest sister both suspected I might be about 18 years ago and finally last year, began to suspect I may well be after some research.
It's not helped that I also am a congenital Rubella baby (CRS) as well, and I have a total sight loss in my right eye, total hearing loss in my right ear, partial hearing loss in my left, and was suspected to being "retarded" back in the 60's. Yes, my mother contracted Rubella during the 4th week of the pregnancy (so first trimester) and to add to that, I have heart issues. Add to that I have a rule out for ADHD and was confirmed to have intellectual disability (formerly retardation).
I'm now working on picking up the pieces that began with Covid, but in some ways, began in 2017 when the job I'd had for 10 years ran its course through no fault of my own. 3rd party contractor for Ricoh, site I was at was closing due to not renewing contract to decide to go alone again, only to consolidate at another office in another state and was not picked up there, nor at another site within Ricoh. PT work at a local 2 year college, with the hope it'll go FT/perm, FT yes, but still temporary, then Covid hit, job ends in June of '20, with the thought I would get back on that August, but that never happened, found another PT/temp job at the same school, and when it ended, that was that.
So I have one long time friend that I've had for 50 years, and he was one that suspected I might be autistic. I still don't know enough about myself to know what I want to do "when I grow up", have anxiety etc.
On top of all that, am gay and have never had a long term partner. Was diagnosed ASD, level 1 (high functioning). Hearing from others is good as I learn about myself and am well aware that many autistic folks likely have stereotypes about neurotypicals and I also see them often not meeting us halfway, even if we try to meet them halfway.
Yes, been bullied, but also have had to be scrappy to defend myself when it comes to it, so I feel that if a woman is going to be a bully, she should get what's coming, even if a good slug to the face is what ends up happening, she deserves it as much as the guy who does the same thing. I've had to slug one classmate who tried to bully me once in band back in 6th grade, he ran off crying. Band teacher new saw it, nor realized it all had taken place.
Anyway, this is all good and informative, even to a "newly" autistic man.
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Agree about Kenji. He is after all, a food scientist that knows about cooking.
The biggest issue with heating a pan or pot without any oil, no matter the pot is when you overheat butter especially, as Adam said, it'll burst into flames. Been there, done that and used to have the pot to prove it, LOL.
Yep, back in about 2015 I did a stupid thing one night when preheating the pot to make risoto and it took a bit longer to get things ready, while the pot was heating up (stainless steel) and even then, I KNEW it was likely too hot, and STILL put in the pat of butter and it immediately went, POOF! into flames, had to grab my aluminum universal lid from the storage drawer, and clamp the lid down on the pot and take out to my concrete balcony to cool off and die down.
The pot was nasty looking when I went to clean it and used Bars Keeper's Friend and boiling water to remove the black staining from the flames on the bottom and the water was nasty and brackish initially but eventually, the pot cleaned up and got better over time. Finally, in 2020, the bottom had been deteriorating for a time and finally had to replace it (rusting), so yeah, best to begin getting it to heat up, then add the oil, or add it to a cold pan, then heat up together. One to reduce overheating the pan or pot, but also to reduce the tendency for the food to stick.
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Like you, I've used most variants of Windows from 3.1 to 11 and have not had any issues per se.
That said, some are clearly better than others. 95-98 (and SE) were fine, though it was all or nothing when they crashed. That lessened significantly with XP as now, you can just shut down the offending software or peripheral and windows soldiered on. Vista was not bad, but those that had issues, I suspect one was trying to run it on under spec computers or had the 32 bit version for lesser machines that were only 32 bit. I had the 64 bit version as my old Dell Studio XPS was 64 bit and largely had no issues with it by itself. Then when I had to do an upgrade, the refurbished PC I got had 10, then when I had to replace that machine 4 years later, the newer refurbished box came with 11, and I just built a new, up to date PC, and went with 11, using a retail copy of 10's key I had to get 11 Pro. Easy peasy.
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@ryanricks3002 Yep, in Washington St, Jay Inslee has had to reinstate masks for all public establishments and for public gatherings over 500 people, even if outside if the 6Ft rule can't be followed. Sadly, some counties are not heavily vaccinated, compared to other counties and a few weeks ago, Pierce County where I live has had to locally reinstate masks for ALL again, thanks in no part due to the rate of unvaccinations in the county. I'm fully vaccinated, and even I have to wear a masks, just to get groceries.
I should state that this is largely due to the unvaccinated and the highly contagious Delta variant being why. We were working our way to totally opening up, but sadly, the mixture of keeping yourself unvaccinated and Delta is killing all efforts, and many of us are still out of work, though I do have a job I so hope to get but it does not close until this coming week though. I was on furlough, but likely not getting back to my old job I don't think.
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Very good, but a few points of clarification. First off, used to run Hitfilm Express, great editor and fairly powerful, however, Artlist bought it in I think 2022 and did some changes, Express is now called Hitfilm Free, and as you say, it's now limited to 1080P, used to be able to output up to 4K for Express. Specifications do say, a Core i5, or Ryzen 5, from roughly 2016/17 (translation, the 6th gen i5, first gen Ryzen 5) or greater. Hitfilm used to be able to run on a Core i3, but no more. Back in early spring, the last of the original employees of FXHome left and the user forums were wiped out by Artlist and a subscription model is in place for the paid version, which does allow for full 4K. I agree that it was a great piece of kit, and have seen too many novices either not read the minimum specs, nor understand what is involved, and even if you explained, some still didn't get it.
I have since switched to Davinci Resolve, mind you, an older version as I am running it on a 10 YO Dell Optiplex SFF that has a 4th gen Core i5, and 1G of VRAM, for now I am hoping to upgrade and it's been recommended that I run an i7 or Ryzen 7, or greater processor, 32G of system memory and have 12GB of VRAM on the graphics card for much smoother playback.
Do be aware that this will be true for any editor that the minimum may get you to 1080P, but don't expect a great experience with anything higher res when it comes to scrubbing, especially when working with H.264/H.265 codecs. Best to transcode those to say ProRes, Cineform or DVnX instead.
Nice thing about Resolve is once you pay $299 or so for it, it's paid and upgrades are perpetual, and as someone else pointed out, if you buy even the speed editor at roughly the same price, Resolve Studio is free.
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A couple of things to keep in mind with most, if not all changers is, the cheap cartridge. Most older units through the 60's used crystal carts, later ones like from BSR used a ceramic version and they all utilize the lowest form of stylus shape, the conical or spherical tip so vertical tracking angle is itself a moot point, with better tips like the elliptical stylus were more sensitive to this angle, with the elliptical stylus being the less sensitive of the better tip shapes such as the Shibata.
Plus, most changers had higher tracking forces, up to 5g if not a bit more with some models (think of the cheap Crosley cruiser models) and in some cases, you can see a wear ring ON the playing surface with some LP's that may show up during playback.
Also, with 78rpm playback, you need a stylus designed for 78's, so many of the older ceramic/crystal carts utilized a flip needle with one side for LP, the other for 78.
However the changer you had may have had a cheap MM cart on it, but still with a conical stylus, thus not ideal for 78rpm playback unless you swapped out the stylus for one made for 78rpm records.
Technically the outer edge of the LP has a semi rounded profile, that is technically what actually touches the previous record played, not the actual grooves, so once dropped likely the outer edge of the LP takes the wear, not the grooves itself.
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Another way to see if you are on is look at Windows settings/internet/networking and if online, you should see your ethernet connection, if not, a dialog box will say you are offline.
This happened to me earlier this week and I thought my gateway (Verizon 5G) was offline, rebooting/updating, turned out the model was offline and didn't come back up on its own, so had to power off, power on to reboot, and it came back up online. Likely the ping command will be more useful for anything that is not local to you.
At least this method I explained will let you know you are online, or not. Being online simply means you can get on the internet, but not always to specific sites and if you can't reach any site, likely you are offline.
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Nice to see these. I remember when these came out in the US (2012) and only in the 100 HP version, both with the Asian auto, or 5Spd manual. Even naturally aspirated as these were, with 2 adults and the 5Spd, they were quite quick for 100HP. Very capable of scooting pretty good. I'd prefer the sport as while it was not any faster, it had the firmer suspension that the Pop (base) and the top o' the line Easy lacked for better cornering if anything.
Mind you, not blisteringly fast but quick enough to get out of its own way without too much of a struggle. I have always preferred slower cars that you can drive fast, rather than the other way around. Fast enough to keep you out of trouble, but quick enough to not get you INTO trouble by not being able to keep up.
These were fun cars to drive, reminds me of older Honda Civics whereby they weighed 1500Lbs, but had all of 63HP out of a 1500cc 4 pot with a 5Spd. Had an 83 hatch 1500 DX for most of the 90's and loved it.
I'd like to find the 500L with stick as it's the exact same length as my 03 Mazda Protege 5 wagonlet that's getting up there in mileage and getting a bit ghetto in spots from years of parking in the street.
The turbo, I think came along 2 years later and I believe cranks out 130 horses in factry trim. Enough to give the car plenty of scoot and be more fun to drive. Not driven any of the turbo models, except for the 500L, which is bigger but didn't notice too much of a difference in the fun quotient.
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Yep. I got a cordless mouse, had several, 2 from Microsoft, but they failed and now have a Logitech mouse and one thing I've found is, if your computer is a tower, and sits on the floor, you need to bring the dongle up to roughly level with the mouse, or it won't work reliably as it's line of sight transmission.
My SFF Dell sits on my desk, but my keyboard and mouse are on a keyboard drawer below the surface, so use an extension to bring the dongle to the same level of the mouse and that works.
Another issue is when you've been able to rule out the mouse etc, but find an issue is something larger, check to be certain your USB ports are working. Years ago, I had a first gen Core i7 based Dell Studio XPS desktop who's motherboard was failing due to loosing periodically the USB ports. A new MB fixed that. Clue was the keyboard, mouse and other peripherals stopped working. So be aware of that.
As to Windows 7, I hope you are not online with 7, it's been off support for several years and using it with an outdated browser leads you security risks, and a lack of proper operation of some site due to being forced to run an older version of the browser due to this lack of support.
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@racheleraanan5133 Don't know where Flamoboy is from, but if you look real hard, you can still find a house here (Washington State) with asking prices in the 250K range, now, it might not sell for that as multiple offers will bid the price up at times, significantly. Typically, a condo will go for less than the same thing in a home (a typical 2 bed, 1 bath), the thing you are paying for in a condo, is the unit itself and your part of any shared walls + the HOA fees and your utilities if not tied to the entire building.
A typical home, you pay for the entire structure, land, and all utilities and garbage, and an HOA if you live in a locked gated community, none if you don't.
Problem now is there are little homes available to be had for all those trying to find a place to buy here. Even rents here are going up due to the shortage of rental units as well.
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I know this is 3 months back, but I am hoping to get diagnosed this year, at 57. There are plenty that got diagnosed even older than that, but it does help out more than you may realize, for those of us still in our working years, it can help us to make it to retirement, even if just by the skin of our teeth, but in the end, you will know for certain why you do what you do, and why you've struggled your whole life, and can better survive for the long haul, and often just knowing helps too. Also, I have CRS, congenital Rubella Syndrome, which stems from having had Prenatal Rubella (German Measles) during the epidemic of 1964-65 while in Utero, which becomes CRS once born. I didn't know the second part until a few weeks ago when a sister discovered it online and brought it to my attention and our other sister. CRS does come with comorbidities, and one of them is Autism, or to put it more succinctly, it raises the likelihood of having Autism too, and while some things may improve over time, some get worse as one ages, like developing Diabetes type 2, heart disease, among them.
One aspect of CRS is that my body may age faster than my biological age and many of us may die younger than we'd otherwise might due to the comorbidities being likely as some get worse, some better over time. There was a long term study of a bunch of Australians that were born during the epidemic of 1940-41, and several over time have died due to heart failure, diabetes and other factors, still others are still living, now in their early 80's. I don't think we are quite there yet with Autism, but we do know many die young due to suicide as it's often due to the struggles they incur during their lifetimes and the sometimes frequent meltdowns can cause depression and that can cause some to take their own lives.
Anyway, hope this helps you to decide to get diagnosed, especially if you suspect you are on the spectrum.
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Agree with Dave, I got my assessment this past fall and it did confirm what was suspected as far back as 18 years ago, I'm diagnosed as ASD level 1 (formerly Asperger's) as it's been deprecated since the DSM-V, but also since then, the ICD-11. That said, I got mine through the state and its dept of vocational rehab and they paid for a 4 hour assessment with someone that can assess adults, which is critical as we adults have been masking for a long time but unlike children, can respond to questions and such, which in some ways, makes it easier, but in others more difficult.
I also have an intellectual disability which was spotted back in the 60's at 3 or so but back then, it was known as "retarded". Today I do not function to the same level as my same age peers. I was assessed at 57 and am now trying to work through all the issues and financial issues and the fallout of Covid, no job etc.
Just getting that assessment will help you in ways you may not know at this time and in the end, it may make your life easier to navigate. At the very least, it'll answer some questions you may have.
Good luck!
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@Dragonfire511 If I recall, didn't loose much as I had most of the files saved to the diskettes, but I think some minor things like a few photos from the My Photos folder may have been lost, but that's about it. I think I lost more when I left behind the diskettes after I moved to a brand new PC in 2009 that didn't have a diskette, and by then, I was barely using the one in the old PC.
The PC ended up being replaced, actually as by then, I had an Asus A7V motherboard with an Athlon 800 CPU and 512MB of ram, which was the schniz in 2001 when I bought them gently used from a friend and proceeded to build a new PC around it and come to think about it, the drive I bought to replace the Deskstar was a WD Caviar Blue (refurbed 17.2GB) to put in the AST and it was read by Windows 95 at 17MB, so when I replaced the AST with the built unit, I eventually had to move up to Win 98 to see the disc's full capacity.
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Not a bad idea, though I'd get (and have) a dock for the drives. They are hot swappable as it's likely you are using SATA drives. IDE drives were not, but SATA is. That way, you can put a drive in the caddy, do your image backup, pull it out and store it.
Mine is a 2 drive caddy that also has the ability to clone one drive to another internally. They are designed to only accept SATA drives, both 2.5 or 3.5" drives, mechanical or SSD. Works a treat, and makes it easier to pull files from drives and consolidate them onto one, larger drive. Currently, I have a 2TB HDD and I'm slowly pulling files to it so data is not scatted over several drives.
Exceptions are SD cards and thumb drives as I often will pull the images onto the drives for storage/project use, then when full, I wipe (format) the cards and reuse them again as needed. This way, I don't have to buy new all the time.
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Agree, but one thing to remember, there are 3 civil suits that could still put Trump under, one of which is the hush money trial where he was found guilty with 34 felony counts and that is set to be read/sentenced on the 16th, then we have the NY fraud case, and the GA RICO case, they all could bury the guy. It's all a glimmer of hope, but not out of the picture yet. With Juan Merchan coming first.
If Trump and his MAGA party is as weak as some say, it may not take much to end the nightmare and get back on track but don't expect it to be rosy, it'll be nasty for a bit, but WILL get better.
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I stumbled onto your channel through a random suggestion from YT this morning and while I'm well familiar with the cassette format, and have had tapes since the mid 70's, beginning with a K-Mart shoe box style recorder from 1975 with crappy K-Mart tapes to go with that got me going with tape recording all kinds of things with it.
I did gradually upgrade to a true stereo component deck, a low end Sanyo from the mid 80's that I still have and soon to pick up a vintage Pioneer CT-F2121 tape deck, their entry level deck from the mid 70's, though to get there, I had moved from the cassette deck in a Hitachi all in one from the late 70's with AGC to a Sansui rack system with a component deck with, again AGC (and it was a crappy deck as was the rest of the system) and was given the Sanyo for my birthday in 1986 and the Pioneer will be my best cassette deck ever but still, I love the cassette format for many reasons.
That said, loved listening to the demo of the various types as demonstrated here and even though I use a full blown desktop PC with a separate receiver and speakers, and even with YT compression, I could definitely distinguish the crappy type 1 with the better type 1, and the other types were more subtle, but if you knew what to listen for, you could detect them as well, and it was more the dynamic range and how well they took the higher peaks (or didn't) and the upper frequencies did show up more as well over the compression, but so did the midrange a little.
I have found that the doped ferrics (what most type II tapes were) did both the treble and bass quite well, thanks to the benefits of both the ferric oxide and the cobalt etc doping agents, and thus was a good type to use for most things at a reasonable price for most folks and still sound great.
Your information was mostly accurate and very informative, especially for those wondering at what all the fuss is about with the cassette format. I have heard that with Dolby S and HX-Pro with metal tapes, one can match if not surpass CD in quality, though I can't verify that as I never had a deck with either.
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Love mine, it's the Honda HRR216 series, the ONLY thing it lacks is the electric start, but quite frankly and is self propelled, I don't miss it as it starts right up, usually on a pull or two. Granted, mine dates to about 2006 and bought it used in 2016 for $250, fixed up from a reseller locally and all it's had in the 5 years I've used it is the pull recoil starter replaced due to a missing spring in the mechanism as I replaced the cord last year I think it was and didn't realized it at the time, but the spring that holds the cord pulley was missing and by then, it was long gone.
I had the carb replaced this spring as one, it was surging, had been since I bought and two, I think the diaphragm may have been bad, it and new blades and an oil change and air filter and that's been it. It'll need to be cleaned out underneath once the mowing season ends next month. I am missing the spring in my roto stop for the blade lever, but it works fine, once I figured out the adjustment for the cable.
Been a fantastic mower otherwise.
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I think you are missing the point. It's a form of 2 factor authentication. There are several ways to implement this, email (a separate one, ideally from a different provider), biometric (if using your phone), or by text messaging whereby they send you a code (use once, limited time to reply) that you then type in on your PC, something that says, it's you that is requesting a change. That's it. Some, though another email is the ONLY option, but that is I think becoming less and less. I personally have 3 emails, one is my primary one, and 2 others, one is Gmail as in it's needed for some services on Google, but they all require 2FA now, so I have had my main email (MSN) used for Gmail, and vice versa. Both are used so no issues there. I do often try to remember to log into my yahoo email periodically, though it is "used" by sites like Live Journal to send me notifications as it was for that kind of thing. I don't get into LJ much these days so Yahoo falls by the wayside mostly now.
But 2FA is often a requirement, along with password vaults to help you with recovering accounts.
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Not a mechanic but do watch Eric O of SMA and Ray of Rainman Ray's Repairs, and occasionally, Paul of Scanner Danner fame, they are ALL diagnosticians as well as mechanics, 2 own their own shops, Dan works at a trade school and does side work diagnosing for his channel. His brother James I think it is owns a shop that he bought from his former boss when he retired. Then there is Eric of I Do Cars who does tear downs of failed engines to find out what caused them to fail.
Ray and Eric O at least have talked about countless times the parts cannon approach that often does not fix the problem, and they often get left to solve, and fix the issue at hand.
I do basic work on my car when it needs it, but more due to the fact that cannot always afford to pay to have it fixed, so I do things like replace brakes, change the oil etc, basic stuff. I, did learn how complex a modern car is a few years back when I replaced my timing belt and did not get the timing marks quire right, oh they faced each other on both cams (FSDE motor in a Mazda Protege 5 wagon) and it idled like poo, but rev it up, it ran fine, only to find say the MAF sensor can affect a half a dozen other parts, and that's when I found out the importance of fuel trims and if it does not change (as it should), something was up.
Ended up being all timing as the marks on both cams not only had to face each other, but be LEVEL too. Once I did all that, all was well. That was in around 2019 and I still drive that car to this day at 199K+ miles on the clock and ticking along nicely.
So it best that you not only know how to fix the car, but do proper diagnosis and electrical diagnosis as well as replacing modules, TPM's, body modules, doing parasidic draws etc are part of repairing many vehicles these days than just replacing wear items. Sadly, too many fail that aspect of being a mechanic.
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I rarely need to call customer service as I can often glean info from say Tom's Hardware or whatever, even if it's an article on someone's product or service, but the info can still be useful in say, why something is, and how it's handled, and oh, by the way use our service to do just that. The info before the by the way portion is where I can get an idea of what I need to be doing and I move on. Eventually, I'll get what I'm after after a few minutes of rooting around the internet and can then go do what I need and fix whatever issue I have.
Granted, sometimes I need to ask someone instead, thus I go directly to the source and find their number if they have one, or failing that, an email or chat for assistance. Sometimes it's a bot chat and often they are useless but I try anyway as it's a you never know. but I will eventually find what I'm after.
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You can call me lucky. I have 2 email accounts, both free I've had since the early 2000's, MSN (when it was still MSN, never had Hotmail) and a Yahoo account for gay related stuff primarily. At one point, had a paid email account through MSN with a broadband service, but that email now no longer exists. Not a big deal, really. Due to being a Youtuber, I do have a Gmail account and it gets used for some things, but almost never send from it, it's receive only. I have alternative ways, mostly 2FA now for retrieving/changing passwords as needed, which is very, very rare.
MSN is my main email and I send/receive from it all the time. I do agree with most of what you say here and should look into a password vault or similar and also update my coded log in credentials list in Libre Office (started out in Microsoft Office) and make it a spreadsheet instead for easier searching, cleaning it up while at it.
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These Always pans get panned in virtually every review out there, they are aluminum and don't heat up too evenly, nor well, the coating sucks, and the overall design is poorly thought through. I don't own any ceramic pans in my arsenal of pots and pans. I DO have ONE non stick but don't use it all the time as mostly I use cast iron, carbon steel or stainless steel and all are cooked on a radiant glass top, but have used them on a basic calrod stove and on a butane burner on occasion.
As several have said, never run them on high heat, at most, medium high (a 7 on most radiant glass top stoves, even many calrods the same). Use high for boiling water, but do not leave it on high, when cooking rice or pasta, turning it down to medium is fine.
Deglaze the pan for sauces, use the fond for extra flavor, by adding liquid to it, then scrape it up with a wooden scraper or spoon. This will also make it easier to clean the pan afterwords, or just soak it for several minutes will also work.
Stainless can go in the dishwasher, as long as the handles are not made of wood. Same for enameled cast iron like Staub or Le Creuset or similar. As long as the pots have no wooden handles, they can also go in the dishwasher, trick is NEVER place cast iron or carbon steel in there however. They will likely get their seasonings ruined and will rust as the dishwasher is caustic when in operation and has been known to ruin many finishes that are not dishwasher safe.
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@katherinejones8022 Note I said, the EXTREMES OF BOTH SIDES (radical). To be fair, the left for a long time (Dems) were weak kneed and let the Republicans run rough shod over them and thus were ineffective for a long time, but even that was often preferable to what the Republicans were doing. I read of the radical left and how they tried to push the narrative of the Vietnam war back in the 60's and in the end, while the war ultimately did end, their ideals didn't make it really far at all, and only further agitated the conservatives and thus may have been what has lead to the political climate we have today.
The extremists are bad, regardless of which side of the political isle they are on, thus extremists are like radicals as they won't stop until they get what they want, even if it means violence.
I did not vote for Sanders let alone Warren, but did like her more than Sanders, but did go for Biden. I have found Sanders not to my liking but DO agree that he was nothing of what Trump ultimately did. There was a candidate whom I can't recall but do recall his platform was all over the place and none of it made any sense and if memory serves, was too left (Not Sanders that I recall) even he was nothing like Trump and I feel we can't indict him fast enough, but suspect he will before mid year most likely, along with the Maga/insurrectionists as well.
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I know this is a couple of days old now but I totally agree with David on this one. The constitution does separate church and state and for good reasons. That said, and I'm trying not to paint this with a broad brush stroke, but the more extreme a Christian you are (be it either the left or right), the more likely you will go against the grain of even the more moderate Christians, let alone anyone else, Christian or no.
That said, I consider myself still a Christian, but not a practicing one these days but also see too many who claim to be Christian, but fail to follow the basic tenets of Christianity itself. It's not about saying I'm a Christian, but do it by actions, not words.
Agree, what we are hearing is off the charts loony and it's like flat earthers, they claim the earth is flat, when evidence is to the absolute contrary of that and yet when one disagrees, and shows evidence thereof, they act like they just been martyred and pillared when that was not the case at all.
It's all sad, really.
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Yep, my washer can very much relate... Autistic meltdown (bam, bam, bam, kick) and a very, very dented side of the washer cabinet trying to get it back on, and connected to the lower part of the chassis so when the clips go in, it's a solid, stable machine. Nope, nodda chance, it's now held together with a ratchet strap and still washed clothes just fine!
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i think the quality of the hot lunches depended on when and where you went to school. I was in school for all of the 70's and early 80's, becoming an adult in the mid 80's and the school district I went to had fairly decent lunches as far as the quality of individual items are concerned. Mind you, it was what most kids, including the HS students would likely have eaten. Ham sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, stuff like that. I think we did have say, canned green beans (which I've never had an issue with, and even now, they come in handy when I need/want to have green beans and I only have the canned varieties on hand, of which I don't often do currently).
Some of my more favorites were the pizza's (Duh... typically on Fridays), the ham sandwiches (essentially a slice of ham, American cheese on a hamburger bun) basic cheese burgers, the patty may or may not be made of real ground beef and often had a slice of American cheese (think McDonald's cheese burgers) In fact, I cooked up a hamburger last night that was better than described for school, and yes, it had American cheese on it, and a mayo/cream sauce with salt/pepper/dill in it slathered on the bottom bun, Pizza was often "sausage" based, (think Totino's pizza) and I can't recall what else was served, yes, there was a salad bar, a desert if I recall, typically a pudding or jello or some canned fruit.
Nothing fancy, but at least it was, to me anyway, was reasonably tasty. Mind you, I didn't not do hot lunches often as Mom made my lunches most days for school, often from about 5th grade on in the brown paper lunch bag. Otherwise, I had the typical either metal or plastic lunch box, not the soft sided ones, but the molded plastic ones for a year or two, but I think they may have all been metal as I think they were the least expensive ones to get as we were not as affluent like some in our middle class community were but were not poor either.
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Yep, Google is indeed your Friend, as is Wikipedia, among other things. A lot of the time, the bibliographies at the end of Wikipedia etc can be very helpful too.
Something as simple as finding out what an abbreviation is, is helpful. For instance, FWIW, I suppose you likely know what it means, I do as well, but for someone that doesn't know, just hop on Google and ask, what is FWIW, the answer is at, or near the top of the results that comes back when you hit enter. 30 seconds or so, you have your answer.
As you have said, it does help if you have an inkling of what to look for too in your search. Sometimes, as you've pointed out, recalling the specifics of an answer you were not sure of, but have looked up before in the past to refresh your memory in answering a question.
I have at times have had to admonish some folks online for the lack of researching as one, the question asked is so basic that a 30 second search will reveal the answer quickly say, I'll say, Do your own research, Google is your Friend or variations of that.
It is true that sometimes you just have to read between the lines, and triangulate the answer to answer a question.
I do often feel like I don't know enough to do what I am doing sometimes, but know I'm not alone in having to look things up.
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Thank you. I recently got my 2 computers, one a desktop, the other a laptop (both Dells running Win11, though the desktop is Pro, the laptop is Home but the laptop can only see the shared folders of documents, downloads etc, not the regular ones we drop files to by default. The desktop can see all that on the laptop.
This was the first time I've successfully got this far with Windows network as trying to run older non 10/11 machines to either 10/11 has often resulted in failures, especially anything pre Windows 7. I had tried to network and old Dell Inspiron B120 laptop with XP to my old Windows 10 desktop a year or so ago, no dice. XP could not be seen on my desktop. So I think you also need to be using on all machines the similar era OS, such as 10/11, with maybe 7-8.1 being alright to use for file sharing/printing.
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Other than needing TPM 2.0 and compatible CPU, I have not had an issue with using 11. My last PC, a 7th gen i5 Dell had 11 and ran it no problem. My current PC is much newer, home brewed and based on the 15th gen Core 7 Ultra, it has 11 Pro.
That said, I have not found no real difference between 10 and 11. Yes, the start bar defaults to the center (big deal) and the move function was removed (again, no big deal) as Cut and Paste is essentially the same thing in the long run.
I just shuffled a bunch of files recently that way to consolidate things to one drive and get my drives all reorganized again after several years of having to move stuff around due to a lack of space on some drives as stuff got scattered over several drives.
Otherwise, what changes are not the OS per se user wise, but some of the telemetry has changed, and not all for the better in their defaults. Just turn them off and your privacy is mostly preserved.
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@samjones1954 Also, in case you didn't know, Mustangs were based on base vehicles when it was first introduced, and has been ever since if not mistaken. That said, I doubt the last few "stangs are based of any current platform but the last one they developed after the fox platform, which, BTW, was based of the Fairmont/Zephyr cars. I had the Fairmont, it was a POS, slow as molasses, but I suspect the cat was partly plugged up. It was a '78, the first year for the Fox platform, BTW.
So they often shared parts with the Fairmont, including the base inline 4 and 6 cylinder motors. Can't recall but the inline six in 1978 was a heavy 200CID motor and it would cause the poor Fairmonts to plow if you took a corner at anything approaching close to speed. When equipped with the 4 banger, not an issue being some of the issues with that car.
I should mention that the first mustangs were based on the plebian Falcon.
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Found out when I first got the Launch Creative 5 tool, and my first scan tool for OBDII cars ever, I found out that sometimes, the tool will lead you astray by having you chase the wrong rabbit hole(s). All it takes is one part to cause a chain reaction of other parts to not read correctly. In my case, a slightly off timed motor will do that.
In 2018, my 2003 Mazda Protege 5 wagon (the Mazda 323) as it's call here in the US, popped the tension wheel spring for the timing belt one day while I was picking up the dog I was house sitting as he did a Houdini and did the "great escape" from my backyard and was picked up by a neighbor a couple blocks over and taken to the pound. He's chipped so my name was also on there as I know his owners well and they are considered family. Anyway, was en-route when the spring went spring! and embedded itself in the timing belt.
Anyway, replaced the belt and spring as I had no way of knowing when the belt was last replaced, having bought the car in 2012 from the used arm of a new Honda dealer and now it's 2018 and still going...
Anyway, it all boiled down to a slight mistiming of the exhaust cam I think it was that caused things like the TRIM's to not modulate, the MAF and later the MAP sensors to not "work", etc, all went back to that slight mistiming. Even the idle was like poo, but rev it up, it ran fine but all cleared up when I got the cams back spot on with the crank and all is well in Mazda land. Thankfully, this motor was the legendary, though peaky FS-DE non interference motor.
Since I live on the west coast of the US, unless right on the coast or constantly driving through the mountains during winter, rust is generally not an issue here so one can still drive 20+ year old cars without having rust issues. Anyway, still drive that car and now has almost 195K+ miles on it and it still chugs down the road fine.
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Very true. He was only guilty of conspiracies and paranoia, then Ford had the gall to pardon him when in office, but realized, a bit too late, he never should have done so, that cost him the election against Carter.
Carter was not the best prez we've ever had, but not the worst, not by a long shot, sadly, his wife, daughter, and brother Billy made a buffoon out of him, and a laughing stock. He, too, would only last one term, and lost to Reagan, that's where things slowly began to fall down, at least as far as the reuplicans are concerned.
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I have been having an issue with an old graphics card that is not playing nice with Windows 11 and simply crashes, sometimes with a brief buzz, then both screens go black, triggering the power saver on both, but the PC is still operating (say, a video still is playing).
So I used to hit the power button and hold it until the PC shuts off, now realizing that if you press momentarily the power button, the PC will do the proper shut down command. Wait a second or so, then repress the power button and it'll go through the boot process and you can then resume.
Otherwise, I tend to hit Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up the task manager open and scroll down and select it, find the offending driver/program, and force Windows to shut it down and resume from there.
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Interesting story on Vista/Longhorn. I bet a company like Microsoft getting in over its head was not nearly as easy as a less capable company with lesser resources available to it, but it's obvious that any company can go overboard, or fail to capitalize on resources it already had or understood what it had (Xerox Park and Commodore with the Amiga were two that come to mind).
I bought a brand new Dell Studio XPS in 2009 and it shopped with Vista (64 bit) and had very little issues with it, however, the computer itself, not so much.
Within a decade of use, I had replaced several components, including the motherboard that may have been plagued by the capacitor plague that was going on at the time. Clue was I kept loosing the USB ports. Anyway, the final straw was not Vista, but the WD blue hard drive (yes) that finally after a decade of being my main drive was showing signs of failing, corrupting Vista while at it.
I finally was forced to replaced with a refurbished Dell Optiplex, running Win 10 Pro (liked it), then had to replace that, some 4 years later with a newer Dell Optiplex (both SFF) PC, this time from a 4th gen i5 to a 7th i5, running Win 11 Pro (again, refurbished as it originally had I think 7, or 8.0), again updated OS. Now, I run a home brew PC based on the Core 7 Ultra 265K, Intel A770 graphics card and 64GB of RAM (DDR5). So much more capable. I still have that later Dell, will repurpose it for video tape etc capturing in the near future.
As Vista went, it was good, rarely gave me the BSD, and most of the time, something would crash and and using task manager to dump said recalcitrant program, I was back in business. Knowing the path that it went through, starting with poor focus, scope/goal posts changing, no wonder Vista took longer to come to fruition that it should have. I never fully got all the hate for Vista, though it's UI interface has not aged too well in the appearance department, it was I think quite decent, though I could have added more than 4GB of RAM to it, but sadly never did.
Anyway, a very interesting story.
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You are not alone in the crazy weather department. This week in Puget Sound it's been wild and that was Monday, Yesterday, and this weekend, snow mixed with rain in the lowlands, snow up in the mountains, and Thursday, we hit the low 70's and early evening, it was still what, 68 outside but yesterday, we barely got in the low 50's with hail, periodic rain and sun, and today, we are lucky to make 50 but be halfway decent for at least the first half of the day today. Next week, not a whole lot better.
As to the Ranger, had a 92, but the top of the line STX extended cab with cruise, fog lights and tilt wheel and a non working AC unit and a tape deck, though it was the Cologne 4.0L V6 and 2WD and a 5Spd. Calypso Green with gray interior. Good truck and out here, they were mostly rust free, drove it from 2006-2012 and had something like 237K on the clock. When I bought it, it was we think, 189K and signs showed it was that as we didn't know for certain as it still had the old mechanical odometer so no 7th digit and the clues were the "Ford door sag" (minor), a sagging driver's seat and the brake/clutch pedals showed wear, oh, the door gasket showed signs of wear, but the truck overall looked fantastic and had the matching canopy.
Overall, it was reliable, but the slave clutch cylinder was a poor design and it went (it's inside the bell housing) then the shifter bushings went, not once, but twice, but overall, it ran well the whole time I had it, traded it in with massive leaks everywhere, worn shifter bushings and it went towards a 2003 Mazda Protege 5 wagon in 2012 and I still drive that Mazda to this day.
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@thecomebackkid1125 All 4 cylinder cars, even the older ones will engine brake. I know, done that on several occasions. You will need to drop down to 2nd gear for the engine braking to occur though without risk of redlining the motor or hitting the rev limiter if equipped. Also, when descending a mountain pass, best not to do more than 50MPH anyway, or you risk over revving the motor.
I did it in a 1983 Honda Civic with a little 1500cc 4 with a 5Spd manual, just dropped it into 2nd going down the roads at Mt Rainier National Park here in Washington State with 3 others in the car. That same car drove down to Medford Oregon from Tacoma WA, not once, but twice via the 5 freeway and that means going over the Cayapaloose Mts before descending into the Rogue Valley, again, I engine brakes that thing too on the backside of all 3 passes you go through before the Rogue Valley, with the first one before you get to Roseburg.
Did it again when I drove a 1988 Honda Accord with the 2.0L inline 4, again with a 5Spd manual, this time, the car was more severely loaded down going the same route, but this time, also had to traverse the Syscou Mts into California, and of course, the backside of the mountains north of LA that begins with the Grapevine ascent, then down the backside to San Bernadino. All of these engine braked fine.
Likely this truck will do the same, though now there are more gears available that you can use to better match what grade you are traversing. I don't know about the CVT transmissions if they allow for engine braking, but any dual/single clutch manualmatic or full planetary gear automatic should allow you to engine brake without issue.
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Agree with you in that if you have a PC that is on Windows 11 and is fine, keep at it, you've got a year and a half to upgrade. I had to upgrade because I had to replace an older Dell Optiplex that is too old for Windows 11, bought it used in 2019 refurbished, and was a 4th gen I5, so can't run Windows 11 as is. So the new machine I got to replace it is a 7th gen i5, and is also a Dell Optiplex, both SFF machines and it was also refurbished, but came with Windows 11, got it last October and it also has an NVMe drive. The previous Dell had a SATA SSD as it did not have NVMe.
Windows 10/11, does not matter as far as basic usage goes as they are very similar, yes, some things have changed and with careful research, you can get rid of many items and reduce the snooping from Microsoft. But once done, it's done and you should not have to deal with them again, so what's the big deal?
I did briefly use Windows 7, but an ISO that was likely non legit as Microsoft caught it and shut it down, had to go back to Vista (yes), but by this point, the original hard drive in my very old Dell Studio XPS was failing and got it to limp along until we can replace it. This was in 2019, hence the 4th gen i5 Dell. The old XPS was the first gen i7.
That old i5 based Dell was to be a short term replacement, but 4 years in, we realized I had to upgrade, and tried to do so then, but funds were not to be had, and add to that, the computer had to be replaced suddenly, and thus picked up another SFF Dell, which is the current one, and "fell" Windows 11. I now have an 8th gen i5 based Dell Latitude with 11 too.
So, eh... it's all Windows and for the most part, works fine.
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@danteerskine7678 I call BS on your claim, they ALL die, Period. I've had old fashioned hard drives fail, yes, but not after at least several years of in some cases, a hard life in IT, in another case a DECADE of heavy read use (OS and programs), only to loose sectors and corrupting the OS badly. The computer was getting long legged anyway, and had plenty of other parts like the motherboard replaced over its lifespan, the original WD blue finally died 10 years in. One or 2 of the not quite as old, but from IT drives failed to be recognized by the OS.
I have had a thumb drive die from mostly a lack of use over time, an SD card fail eventually (it was an Adata class 4 drive for my Nikon D90 DSLR. I have 2 and the second one still works).
The point that Leo is saying here is, no matter the drive, most will last between 3-3 years on average but many will last at least a decade, often with many reads and writes and that you are best to backup everything.
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I, on your advice got Duck, Duck Go and now have almost no ads on my desktop, Android is another matter (Google on there) and sites keep shifting for new and often changing ads. I think this is deliberate to get folks to accidentally click on an ad. Easy enough on most phones if your are prone to butter fingering.
That said, many ads are fake, even those links to "additional" stories on many sites come off as fake and don't get me started on the fake ads on YT, related to gaming and ARE previews I think of games.
But as you alluded to, need to be vigil, aware, and use critical thinking to suss out stuff now a days and as you point out about the download page. Downloads are ALWAYS free, but not always free to USE and add to that, not all downloads are legit so need to find the legit page, or its mirror site if offered and typically, you can only find those at say, Macrium's website to mirror download sites they use.
A number of years ago, ran into this situation trying to download something (a program I think). Took me a bit to find the legit download page, but I did eventually find it. Moral is, don't click on the first link you see, double check to be sure it's legit before you click on it.
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First wave Gen Xer, born in 1965, so will be 60 next month and I grew up before the advent of the internet and got my first smart phone in 2012 with the Blackberry Storm (1st gen), that said, I don't have much in the way of social media accounts, don't do Pinterest, Tik Tok etc, though I do have an account with Instagram, mostly for my YT channel, of which I need to get back to, and am working on projects that are not quite ready for editing yet.
That said, phones today are needed, and why I got my first, a basic Nokia in 1998, and at that time, with Voicestream (now T-Moble) and it was very limited and cost me $10 a month I think it was. Mostly to be able to call for help if the car broke down. Not that it did all that often as even though I was driving cars that were 9-10 years old when I got them, keeping most about 4-7 years, being able to call for help was the main reason.
These days, it's my only phone and most family members communicate with me via text, but I don't live by text messaging and often do not use the phone a lot as I often prefer to do stuff on the desktop where it's easier to see etc.
Also, I'm job searching and run into the issue of many phone calls are not identified, go to spam automatically and thus no messages.
I do more than online stuff, but I do often do research online and write scripts, then I edit videos, stuff like that on the computer. I also have been known to generate PDF's, many of them fillable. Used to do faxes, but no longer have a landline and many places now have it so no fax, though most businesses still do.
So while I generally do not utilize the phone for passive use all that much, I do keep it on but it's in the background and when shooting on the road with my GoPro, it then becomes my "remote" with Quik to start/stop the camera, and make any adjustments to ProTunes as needed. Otherwise, I leve it in its holder while driving.
Will say though, used to be a voracious reader when much younger. Much of what I read now is online documents and articles.
Also, am neurodivergent so not as likely to bury my face into the phone while out and about as I like to keep my wits about me and be aware of my surrounding. In fact, don't wear headphones, generally as well.
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This is very good and a few years back, tried to do a deep dive on the rubber scraper (spatula) and little online then about it and my take was to look at it as an indispensable tool in the kitchen as it is used to scrape foods from dishes into another dish or trash. It's been around a long time, and until oh, the past 30 years or so, was largely made of rubber, now mind you, MOST rubbers are man made as natural rubber, made from latex, grows on certain trees that were largely only grown down near the equator, and is limited in quantity as a result, so man made rubber was developed. Most rubber products are man made, and then vulcanized to get it to an elastic state we now think of as rubber.
Problem with mostly man made rubber, but natural rubber too is they will degrade after several years, chemicals will leach out, become sticky, shiny, some will crack as they dry out, especially if put in the dishwasher. You may notice this with old pencils, the erasers they have will harden and dry out. This is why many belts in tape decks, be it cassette or R2R etc will often degrade to a gooey mess, or simply loose their elasticity and stretch out from age and why belt drive tables it's often recommended you replace the belts every 5 years or so.
That is why I stopped buying rubber spatulas, and began getting silicone ones instead as they are inert, and so far have not had them leach out as they break down. I have 3 silicone ones that I've had for about 18 years, and often cook with them too. They have held up well in hot pans. 2 are a touch discolored from the heat after many years. Yet, they still are stable, have not dried out, nor cracked, nor leached some gross/gooey, sticky chemical. One has lost a corner after many removals of the head to allow water to dry out as they get moldy if I don't do this. I know not all spatulas like the one Adam holds here but many are made to have the heads be removable, and most of mine are like that.
I don't have the capability to smell much if at all so am not aware of their holding in odors. I believe America's test Kitchen has tested for their absorption odors as part of their tests and some may be better than others about this, but knowing that tossing them into an oven (mind you minus their handles if possible if the heads are removable) and "bake" them at 400F for several minutes will remove the smell is a good thing.
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@FreiherrvonDinkelacker OK, but you ARE here, watching YouTube and thus, you CAN Google it, it takes little time.
Now, granted, yo work as a mechanic and I watch Eric O, as well as Watch Wes Work and some others in the rust belt so I understand about rust, even if where I live, cars here do last for a very, very long time and even so called antique cars here can still be relatively solid.
So to declare yourself not to look it up, I see this type of stuff way too often by many so hence the "lazy fingers"
I google stuff all the time, BTW.
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@FathomlessJoy I watched the debate so there.
If you watched the debate, then you should have noted her talking about woman's reproductive rights and what she indended to do about it, all the while trying to dispel Trump's wish to remove those rights. Remember, she's been a prosecutor, an AG, a senator among them and has 34 prior years experience with this, and while she had to be on offense to Trump, she did manage to answer the questions as best she could, given the time given.
Some questions were never asked by the moderators that should have been asked so there is that, but as I said previously, she mopped the floor with Trump.
I know what she intends to do, and I'm also aware that some of her plans may not be fully fleshed out, given the short time she had to start campaigning after Biden stepped down.
I think you are either a troll, or a Trump supporter, or both.
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To be honest, I DO think the emphasis is too much on the gas stove itself but look at where those stoves are housed, in kitchens without any sort of ventilation, even a window in some cases. I live in an older home, has no exhaust hood of ANY kind, but, I DO have an electric glass top (not induction) and it does not take much to cause a lot of smoke in the kitchen, if not to set the smoke alarm off at the OTHER end of the house from the kitchen. I do have a window, but nowhere near the stove itself.
So I'd say, instead of BANNING gas stoves, might as well require ALL KITCHENS be retrofitted, or remodeled to have exhaust hoods, and not ones that recirculate back into the room, but vents outside instead, and make this mandatory for any stove type, regardless of the fuel used as if not using gas for cooking, you may be using it by the electricity your electric utility company has sourced to power their generators (coal or gas is quite common in the NE of the US, or coal once was). That said, the electric grid is not as robust as it should be and may not handle the load always well to begin with.
Add in all the heat pumps and AC units now in use, the time is ripe to cause more problems than it solves by requiring electric stoves, without looking at the entire picture without requiring an infrastructure rebuild of the electric grid across this vast nation.
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@SeattlePioneer There is a budget to content, with, or the lack there of, or I would have by now, I'm just saying that is a hidden elephant that no one is talking about.
Hoods typically don't cost nearly as much as many stoves, unless you buy a top end hood, and those can get quite spendy, and then to retrofit into older structures that never had them can get expensive too. I can do it a little easier, and cheaper by usurping my gas wall furnace flue to vent outside when I get around to replacing that too, so $$$ I just don't have right now.
Also, I should add, I used to live in Seattle, and my last place was a 1960 modern concrete slab apartment building on Capitol Hill and it did have an exhaust fan/hood, the hood was there for light but recirculated into the room, the exhaust fan vented outside through a vent chase to the roof and was shared by other units in the same stack. Did the job, but could have been better, yes, I used it always when I cooked. I live in Tacoma now in a single family home from 1905-1908, the kitchen is original to the mid 20's.
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Eric, an owner of an '03 Protege 5 (yes, the wagon), even with some occasional neglect/abuse, they hold up well and really do not need all kinds of service for most of their lives, if taken reasonably cared for.
That said, mine has 198400K on it now, on the original FSDE 4 pot motor, the AC still works, though it's had a new radiator, 2 new thermostats and so far, no blown head gaskets. I replaced the water pump (though to be honest, probably not needed at the time. have had that slightly out of time timing belt at the cam shafts (yes, dual OHC) but it survived and once corrected, it runs like a top. Sadly, it's saddled with the 4 speed autobox sport stick auto instead of the 5 spd manual.
Even the interior has held up (leather seats for the win). Bought it used in 2012 and it's been through thick and thin in that time and it still chugs along, thankyouverymuch.
Have always liked the 1st gen Miatas best. Another good video fixing a 20 YO low mileage vehicle from what was obviously a poorly repaired car from a shop.
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Think of it this way, each tab is a thread, or each site you open is in an all new browser, whichever you've set up. I run multiple tabs in Firefox and I have 31 threads on it and that means likely 31 tabs.
Remember, these threads are also utilizing specific processes within the browser/internet, things like flash, splash screens, running Quicktime, audio/video, running video players within YouTube etc. All of those processes are done separately for efficient use of the browser, and internet. Does not slow things down greatly if one has more than adequate memory (16GB is now recommended for most folks).
This is how one can access websites quicker, along with broadband access and do it all at the same time, more or less.
So the answer is no, not if you want to wait for stuff to load and/or run.
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Yep, thought that was the "infamous" motor. I had the old pushrod version in a '92 Ranger and they were quite decent. From memory, even those had OK power, not stellar, but remember, this is an old design these days. It's not the same block as the 3.0L V6. In 1992, they put out 160 HP, which was adequate, but again, not stellar. Seems these did have issues with the head castings and my old truck may have had that earlier on in its life.
I have a 2.0L inline 4 in a Mazda Protege 5 wagon, FSDE, DOHC, though with fixed valves, and naturally aspirated. Not the most powerful motor, but a super reliable one as at 130 HP, it just manages to hustle out of its own way pulling a 2700Lb car, crippled with the 4spd autobox (fortunately the sport shift, shift it yourself version) and to get the most out of it, wind it up to about 3K, shift for most gears, except 1st and the car then feels reasonably responsive due to a peaky power curve. Yes, non interference indeed as the spring in the timing belt tensioner breaks, embedding itself into the timing belt as I headed to a buddies house. At 196+K on the clock, it still runs just fine.
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Unfortunately, Narc's are likely rather smart, have empathy, but chose to use it against people by "empathizing", then turn on them for kicks and giggles and love chaos, to turn something into turmoil, always using scapegoats (the person, often a child, can't do right by the Narc), the golden child (he/she can do no wrong), and use them against other family members and I forget which, but one will likely be another Narc.
The rest will eventually escape and go no contact, which is how one removes themselves from the abuser in the first place and can recover and get on with their lives. I don't know if standing up to them actually works like it typically does to most bullies (seen that happen when I didn't back down to one once years ago, which is why you don't call me scrappy for nutnin').
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I am getting tired of reading comments where people say to lock him up already etc, when the reality is that the federal courts are slow by design, with some state courts even slower (New York's) so there is that element, then I think what's happening is they are going after the lower lying fruit first and working up to trump, all the while gathering evidence to hopefully get trump, once and for all.
So patience and while I agree, this is unprecedented as what the orange orangutan has done is so much worse than even Nixon ever did, Nixon was paranoid as was President Johnson, but in a less insidious way., but not an out and out evil like Donald is (being a Narc and all, and even tries to squelch the US constitution and steal an election, which is definitely shades of Hitler et-al).
Yes, I'm well aware some of these types of comments may be meant rhetorically, but it is hard to tell when its rhetorical or not by text alone.
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Looks like you got some of the same type commenters America's Test Kitchen got when Julia did her eggs, sunny side up, a touch crispy around the edges this morning on her segment from the full ATK, At Home episode. I saw the original full ep on YT I think a month to a month and a half ago.
It's funny how many say crispy eggs is NOT right, taste bitter etc, when it's a perfectly valid way to do them. She likes them runny, same with me, I fry, I soft boil, I hard boil if making say egg salad filling for sandwiches, and I will poach them, which I did this morning, using the pot method, a technique I've come to turn to now instead of a dedicated egg poacher and I even have 2 vintage ones. One a single Mirro poacher, and another one that poaches 3 at once.
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Also, something else to realize, legally, there may not much that may be done until the 20th, being that impeachment again will take too long, most likely, but also not doing anything now is only allowing the legal eagles to gather evidence while Trump is in office to go after him once he's required to leave the White House on the 20th, or failing that, be forced out/escorted out forcefully and right into a court house to begin trial.
As much as I'd love for him to be offed right now, I feel that a better closure is to try him in court, convict him and then serve him up to a guillotine or a hangman's noose and then be offed, rather than be in jail for life as that will then allow us to go after the truly committed trump supporters and try them, one by one. It'll take time, but we will prevail.
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@NoComment374 Let me ask this, are you even autistic? I am, but late diagnosed in 2022 at 57. I'm highly adaptable, can be very engaged, but yet show through certain thought processes etc to be very much autistic, but I'm not JUST autistic, but also have other co-morbid conditions that are related, but not apart of autism per se.
Born with congenital rubella that affects organs, including the brain, born to older parents in their 30's, with Dad at 37 in 1965 (yes while there was a rubella epidemic going on and Mom caught it, hence my congenital rubella) and all these combined to make me who I am, imperfect, but very much capable, but autistic as well.
So the statement when you met one autistic, you've met only that ONE, is an apt statement as now while I can find others similar to me, high masking etc, there will be, at times significant difference between us. I'm further differentiated by also being gay, discovered that in my 30's in the early 2000's, so that alone makes my representation of autism different by itself.
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I know this is now 6 days old but still, as a content creator and watcher, I find some patterns happening on YouTube and that is, one, I think I agree that YT is still struggling to find itself, and along the way, loosing it's original intent. I also find many creators doing exactly as you say, loosing their voice by one, allowing too many influences to influence their channel, that is, trying to make it perfect, hiding mistakes and cutting out (often crudely) flubs etc, and that becomes annoying when it's multiple jump cuts in a row.
Too many creators are also "influencers", what exactly does that mean? I sometimes wonder if some creators are taking that too literally and perhaps a bit too far. Also, many may be finding that trying to cram too many subjects into a 10 minute video regardless whether it should be longer or not and I find that tiresome and rather frenetic, and others don't even bother to edit, much if at all, and thus lots of shots from afar that drone on for minutes before the move the camera in closer. My videos are varied in that they can be as short as 10 minutes or up to an hour or a bit more and on average I run roughly 30 minutes long now. I also edit, but when I need to jump forward, I often will utilize a cross dissolve, to lessen the jerkiness of jump cuts. I also find too many creators are struggling to find their voice, by trying to copy others, thus too many similar content from many channels. Some stand out from the sea of similar channels by being original in their presentation and how they go about it, others come off as too me too! Part of why I don't just subscribe wantonly to just any channel, usually.
But finding that voice means, be yourself, don't try to be something you are not is key here to how some channels are successful, or not, and it's not all that easy to find that voice, so some "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" is necessary at the beginning, but I find if you just be you, the likely you'll succeed.
BTW, the shortest video was shot in Oct, and was just over 2 minutes, 2 minutes and 15 seconds and it was a gorgeous sunrise one morning, then the next day, it was foggy. Showed that, and it's just a regular upload, no official shorts clip, but I find that on occasion, it can be not a bad thing if the subject warrants it, otherwise, I don't do click baits or any of that, as one, I find too many people dislike the click bait tactic, especially when it is treated as such. I recall all that when it was announced a couple of years ago and my reaction was, WTF?
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@declaninc Dude, I never said I was scared, where did you get that? I was just quoting what I read, not what I felt, get with it. Biden didn't need to do anything, but since so many people are not getting vaccinated and causing the epidemic to drag on, he's had to put his foot down and now requite all Gov't employees and contractors to get vaccinated or show proof. I never had to prove being vaccinated, which kind of suprised me as how to they know if we are vaccinated, or not? Anyway, the time has come to prove you are vaccinated, or get tested for for Covid or quit.
Sadly, it has come to that, but that is what it is and I'm all for it.
Now, you can stop being igorant about this and educate yourself. It's no laughing matter. I'm glad you got vaccinated, but clearly, did so without a clue.
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Love little red trucks... That said, agree with what you are saying and I find you can't always please everyone, and some are never satisfied. That said, some of your audience may be autistic and can literally be literal in their interpretation of what's said too, just a thought. Fortunately, I'm not that literal, even though I was diagnosed as autistic almost 2 years ago at 57.
When you were pixelating Lauren while both were pushing the lil' truck into the shop, my thought was likely either her shorts were in such a way to be a tad revealing, or she accidentally wore her short, shorts to work, thus being even MORE revealing, so yes, you did the right thing here. Respecting the wife unit.
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Ray, you were in my thoughts as I watched the Ryan Hall live stream last Thursday, wondering how you all fared. Seeing Lauren's upload on your channel brought relief that you all were OK and not near any major water (ocean), but had family staying with you all etc so may, or may not be uploading/working for a few days.
Glad the shop was fine and back in business.
I did see the upload of Anna Maria Island and then had a look-see via Google Earth. A beautiful area, or was anyway.
I could hear the weariness in your voice as the video played and noted your state of mind. I totally understand. Keep on keeping on and take care of yourself. Glad you are getting back to a routine, even if slowly.
Agree, this was likely not climate change but there are folks crying as if the sky is falling and causing more harm than good as a result. I do think the attitudes we all are seeing is in part in the US anyway, due to the political climate we find ourselves in, and have been in since at least 2016, and a certain individual has given us permission to act selfish and rude. Not that I like it, but it is what it is and I feel it'll likely get worse before it gets better.
Take care of yourself Ray.
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Being autistic, I am seeing this a lot. Many folks laugh at the dumbest things, can't spell, refuse to do their own research, so they ask stuff on spaces like Quora, or YouTube as to where did you get so and so, please, pretty please? when it could have taken them a minute or two to find out for themselves if they'd lifted a finger to type the query into say, Google.
I'm 60, late diagnosed but it's been something I've noted for a long time, long before I was officially diagnosed almost 3 years ago.
Definitely agree that critical thinking has flown the coup, as well as EQ, emotional quotient. I read, but not as much as I used to, but was a voracious reader when younger. Used to listen to music a lot too, but I can do days without it now, preferring silence, or not if editing as I need to hear what is being recorded.
Being articulated, thoughtful, with correct spelling etc are getting rare these days from most neuraltypicals. It's sad really when its become easier to lie, tell half truths, but what most forget is that it takes EFFORT to keep the lies and half truths straight, whereas the TRUTH will stay straight.
Anyway, I write an answer, thinking it's not too short, and someone will say, it's a long answer/reply so attention spans have also gotten shorter too, and no, this is not ADHD but rather, folks not used to thinking for more than a few mere seconds before shutting off the brain and going on with their lives.
Agree, intelligence, does go a long way.
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First of all Roman, welcome to my neck of the woods, and yes, it's quite sunny here during the summer months. :-)
Were you on Bainbridge Island? If so, I thought you might've been there.
As to the Jag, and many newer cars in recent years, much of the exhaust note etc, are artificially created these days, lame. I wish automakers would try to educate us "muricans" about driving and what to expect in a car, other than soft, squishy rides that take no effort on their part.
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@aminorityofone I did similar too, switched to Verizon 5G wireless internet (using a 5G gateway as modem), it has WiFi capability but the ability to turn it off and has a pass through for the LAN so a separate router can be used, in my case, a wireless router from TP Link that gets the direct connection from the gateway, my desktop gets a wired connection, phone, only other wireless device for now takes up WiFi.
The TP Link router replaces the now 5+ year old netgear router that lost the desktop IP address and I could not get it to reconnect/reestablish that primary IP address so hence the replacement router.
The new router is better than the old one as one, its coverage is wider so now the back of the house gets a stronger signal (I live in a small house) and has NUMUU (?) so it does not bog down as much when more wireless devices are in use, of which the old router did not have. Works great and I get up wards of 2Gbps+ speeds down, upwards of 20Mbps up fairly consistent now with some upgrades to the network in my neighborhood.
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Good point, I, too, run a router and use both 2.4/5G, however both of my machines are new enough to run 5G, the desktop, a Dell Optiplex has the 7th gen Core i5 in it, Windows 11 Pro. The new to me laptop has the 8th gen of the same, it's also a Dell, but the Latitude, running Windows 11 Home (should've been Pro and will get it fixed). The main thing is, the desktop is LAN wired, whilst the laptop is WiFi.
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I've been using a Windows computer since the early 90's when it began as a DOS box (4), my Dad upgraded it to Windows 3.1, then 3.11 and eventually upgraded that 386 to a 486, I then got the 386. You get the idea. The first 2 my late father had purchased, and handed down to me.
Since the late 90's, I've been on my own with computer upgrades, but going refurbished, then I built a PC, running Windows 98 SE, then XP, then Vista, briefly Win 7, skipped 8, 8.1, got 10, and now 11. Each time, had no issues with them for the most part, if something was not "working", it was either incorrect solutions/instructions when Googling, so more Googling to find/figure out the solution and even then mostly to find out where a feature was. Most OS upgrades were with new, or new to me used PC's (refurbished) and see it as part and parcel of computer ownership, in part, being able to navigate online without issues.
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Guilty as charged on too many things open on my system, but I DO have 32GB of RAM and even that on occasion can become heavily used (24GB used out of 32GB) and sometimes with heavy CPU usage. I run a Dell SFF optiplex with the 7th gen I5 processor and it maxes out to 32GB. Before long this box will get upgraded to a full ATX tower based i7 computer and even there, maybe the current 14th gen, if not the 13th gen processor and 64GB of memory, running Intel discreet graphics, either Arc or Battlemage of the A770 variety.
Yes, I have plenty of tabs open in FireFox, but also several programs, and several files open with at least 2 programs (mainly Libra Office and Audacity), along with Canva, several folders I'm working from, maybe Davinci Resolve etc and I often am toggling betwen them (alt/tab) frequently.
On occasion have to reboot to reduce memory leakage as I don't shut down the PC, thus, it runs 24/7 and occasionally shut down tabs as I don't need them but even that still leave plenty of tabs open on the daily.
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A very good video on keyboards, I agree. I discovered years ago the old model M buckling spring keyboard from IBM. The station I did my work study at had even in the mid 90's, used "vintage" IBM's, IE, either 286's, or the 8088 before that, running Word Perfect.
Since then, have wanted to find a model M, but soldiered on with my first several PC's with the bog standard rubber dome models, some were way better than others. Packard Bell was one of the worse for me as the 386 I had, the stock keyboard was giggly, keys too close together etc and it took getting a first gen MS natural keyboard to learn how to touch type. When that keyboard finally died in the early 2000's, I went back to the standard Qwerty keyboards and have not looked back.
Been watching, off and on Keychron with his "obsession" with keyboards and discovered the various types of mechanical, magnetic, and optical key switches, and learning about how the rubber dome is constructed, I landed on either the Buckling spring or Cherry MX keyswitches. Today, I run a rather affordable Aukey mechanical, using Chinese clone Cherry MX blues.
This keyboard is surprisingly durable, but noisy (and I like that) as it has a LOUD clicky, clacky sound, again, prefer that to silent. It's tactile, like buckling spring, has good weight for touch typing and for a fella that is tactile oriented, it's perfect. Yes, I am like Phil, I bottom out my keys when I type (yes, heavy handed).
At the moment, one keyswitch does not light up at all, the rest continue to, though in other colors outside of red, some don't show the same color. Red is the only color that shows on all keys, though the /? keyswitch no longer lights at all.
This is due to liquids (twice) have fallen on it, been cleaned once and then contact cleaner used on each key, key caps pulled and scrubbed/washed and the top, aluminum place scrubbed, sadly, not hot swappable but the cleaning did restore an almost new like appearance to it. HOWEVER, the key caps are crappy. They look premium, but are slick and NOT double shot, the F12 key cap is now badly scratched due to the keyboard tray that runs off the center rail. If I don't lower the tray enough, the F12 key cap hits the rail.
When I get another keyboard, it'll be the full 108 Key, similar in profile to this one, but preferably hot swappable instead.
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Wow, those 2 front tires, scary indeed. I've had similar issues, but didn't realize the issue until later. The first was some old I think Sears tires that were on my 74 Nova in the mid 80's that developed bulges in the sidewalls of several of the tires, one popped while delivering a pizza one morning, had to take the rest of the day off and get some new tires. Was not aware initially that this was the issue until one rear tire blew, then noticed the other wheels not too far behind. Ended up buying some Cooper Trendsetters on sale that day.
Around 2000 or so, had to replace the michelin tires on my 88 Accord, and went with Yokohomas and by 2005, at least one front tire had tread separating. Didn't realize that until I was at work and noticed the situation. Funnily enough, I never felt the wavering while driving at the time.
Then I think in 2022, had to have both front tires of my current ride, a 2003 Mazda P5 wagon replaced for yep, tread separating. No sign at all while driving so was not aware of the situation, but had to have the car repaired (leaking rear brake caliper) and the shop noticed both front tires were a problem too. Continental extreme contacts, one was old (2013, I think) the other a bit newer.
I've, however, not had the belts show as the tires wore down that badly that I recall on any car I've owned.
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Ah, it's the ol' while I'm in there, I might as well... job. It can quickly get out of hand. I kind of have something similar going on here, Not auto related, but computer. I had a bee in my bonnet and went and bought a SATA SSD (1T) drive at my local Office Depot for $50 and was to install it yesterday, but instead, did what I'd been meaning to do for a while, clean my mechanical keyboard, so that's what I did late afternoon. Today, it's the drive (I already have a SATA SSD for OS/software) but my scratch disc is one partition on a SATA spinner HD, along with storage space labeled Files. That will get removed to an external SATA dock and the new SSD will be put in its place. That way, both scratch disc and editing is on SSD - all to enable the poor old PC to work a better, and buy time until I can do a full upgrade.
Right now, I edit on an external spinner drive and scratch files are also on an internal spinner.
But at least now, my keyboard is much nicer than its been so that's nice.
As for your truck, if it'll make it be more pleasant and last a bit longer, then it'll be worth it. So I say, carry on!
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@lassepeterson2740 Then why are you driving a stick in the first place? If you hate shifting, then get an automatic, or one of the manumatics that are often available, or the manual gates of some automatics. I have the old 4Spd Sport stick auto in my Mazda Protege 5 wagon (US model) and I use that all the time as if it's a manual. Always start off in 1st and yes, it's a short gear so must shift it sooner to 2nd than 2nd to 3rd. Occasionally, the autobox does not drop down to 1st, so I end up starting in another gear, but immediately have to get it to 1st, to take off, but the car is not the fastest anyway.
Otherwise, it runs through all 4 gears quickly, but the performance is lackluster.
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Good suggestions and I've done many of them, including blowing out the 'puter every so often when I think about it.
The last was back in January and that's when it all went wrong, I had temporarily removed the HD cage to my Dell Optiplex to ensure the entire inside was free of dust as much as possible and when I got it all back together and reconnected back up, hit the power button and BSOD, yup. No matter how I tried, BSOD and a major issue notification was displayed. SO, grabbed my old SSD (a lowly 120GB Patriot Burst SSD) and connected it to the spare drive's SATA connector and power and used Macrium Reflect to do either a clone or an image, image I think and it worked, or so it seemed, nope, nada, zilch. BSOD, same message displayed. SO, I then moved the Patriot to the main SATA (0) to act as boot, same thing, it was corrupted so the clone failed and took with it, the image that was on the old drive (it was used to clone the new Samsung SSD and did so successfully I might add) last summer even. SO,had to get a fresh install via USB retail and got myself back up and running. It's been fine since then.
I've done defrag many times in the past, I've even modified the swap file size a few times, cleaned out the drives, the puter, and added memory (in the current box, it went from the 8G it came with to 16GB), cleaned out the cache, and a time or two, had to take out crap in the form of bloart ware if possible, try to figure out why the damn HD is overly active at times, and upped the drive size when the Patriot to 70% and started slowing the puter way down to the point it was barely usable. That's when I bought a new Samsung EVO 870 SSD with 500GB capacity for $70-ish bucks to replace Patriot with. Mind you, this Dell is 8 years old now but it soldiers on with an equally as old, nearly discrete NVIDIA graphics card that I put in it as I was NOT going to use the built in Intel graphics and the Display Ports.
Another potential speed increase is to move away from the built in graphics card, either on the board or CPU for a discrete one as back in the day when 286's, 386's and 486's minus the DX math compressor really benefited from a graphics accelerator card (when they were still called that many moons ago).
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Thanks Leo. I see these all the time and have had to lambast several folks, both here on YT, but on Quora too, among other places to use their brain, you know, that gray matter between 2 ears and behind both eyes... Some of the questions I get are so basic that a simple search online will yield the rather simple answer, but no, have to hop on say, Quora and ask the dead simple question.
On the other hand, some of the info on the web is rather incorrect, or out of date as the methods to get to where the solution is gets changed with updates and the article is several revisions old, or they leave out pertinent parts of the information that makes the directions unusable as they simply do not work, so I have had to do more googling to find a working solution.
At least I use my brain for what it is, but I think so many do not. Even reading of descriptions on YouTube videos goes unread, and then someone in the comments ask a question that is in the description.
Irritates me to no end. Agree with another commenters on error messages, they will often say, an error occurred, or Oops, something's wrong, as if trying to hide potentially technical info, or a fault on their end or something of the sort. Makes it damn hard to find out if the error was on their end, or mine.
Speaking of errors, Windows is notorious for not being clear on how to solve an issue, especially now with the BSOD. Click on the code and you'll get an error, but sometimes even that is obtuse and clear as mud.
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I look at the polls as a snapshot of what's at present and is more for strategizing than it is anything else and really, should be taken with a grain of salt, or more.
That said, I'm seeing a lot of channels that may not be legit on here with videos indicating problems with the Democrat party, one is in my suggestion feed where Harris/Walz campaign is crashing being one example.
I should get my ballot sometime this week, and have already begun looking at the voter's pamphlets, one national, one local for my county. Ballot should arrive this week and I can then go drop it off at the ballot drop box, though I may take it to the county office drop box due to how Republicans are acting as of late and thus, don't trust them at all. BTW, voting Harris/Walz.
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@stevenpierre1987 Let me ask you this, do you tow, are you a professional in the business if not, then I'd suggest you learn something about towing.
I've seen many recovery professionals, even Casey Ladell having to occasionally drag the car in this manner, heck even Ron Pratt who does this for a living and owns Midwest Truck and runs a rotator has had to resort to this on occasion. If on ice or dirt, it's usually not too big a deal, especially when they have no keys and the car is locked.
The point was, not to damage the car if at all possible, unless it's already damaged badly and likely it is not a big deal or they would not be doing it.
Also, pulling by the wheel is also fine as they can take it.
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@rennkafer13 Yep, in the NW, rust is not an issue. We can still drive cars that are 20+ years old and much, much older as daily drivers so every so often, you may see something from the 70's or 80's driven daily on the freeways here.
When commuting, I'd find old Datsun B210's still plying the roads, yes, from the mid to late 70's Bumble Bee's, and the occasional 80's GM FWD vehicle, such as the old Pontiac 2000's (later renamed the Sunbird) etc still plying the roads as well as old first gen US Escorts on rare occasions, same with old Honda Accords and Civics for that matter. Even old Datsun or Toyota trucks, some going back to the 70's are occasionally seen. I drive a 2003 Mazda P5 with 192K+ on it and it's rust free essentially, but it was bought new out here, though I've had it since 2012.
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@jeffsullivan3101 I only know what I know due to some researching a few years back. Used to be that the building codes for the US was largely the same everywhere and it was discovered that if they broke it up to regions, and adjust the building codes to that region, it made much more sense.
BTW, did not note that his house had metal roof so there is that.
Thank you.
BTW, there ARE parts of the country where local jurisdiction has no building codes, Not sure how many are like that, but parts of Idaho are but not certain if FL is one of them or not, but if not, he has had to build to code for that area, and I believe all of FL has to be built to withstand hurricanes, assuming the structure was built in recent years to begin with. Older structures may, or may not have been built to hurricane forces, but can be retrofitted to however.
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As a Washingtonian, and a Dem, I see a lot of this happening. In Tacoma where I live, a city that's been an industrial city for years, even has a good chunk of its populace also military, and yet, I see plenty of this nimbyism happening here. I live in a quintessential working class neighborhood, still intact for the most part and I'd love it to stay that way, but something I read recently is the cost of construction is part of the problem why housing is so expensive, you can't build for the low income, due to the general cost of materials - add to that the fact that housing here is often hard to find, with many houses now having multiple offers, selling for way over list price as a result. Upzoning is one avenue the city is looking at to solve this problem, but I don't think that'll solve much, if anything, and yes, the homeless are rife here. By the same token, I think part of the problem is, getting the rich to pay more taxes, and to raise the overall wages as now you can't even live on 20K/year anymore, and yet many are expected to do so. I think if that were dealt with, a lot of the housing issues will solve itself.
Now, I do think the Dem's need to not listen to the overtly progressive young dems, and reign them in, but by the same token we also need to redo the republicans as they are so corrupt as to be in bed with the right. I find too many young people are too "woke" for their own good, with defunding the police etc happening, along with sentitivities to people's feelings as to not offend. That is one reason we see many use him/his/etc in their signatures in emails, or simply listing non binary pals.
I'm not a fan of Jay Inslee, we've had way better Governors than him, though he is not the worst. It's sad that our state is like this, and Tacoma is loosing sight of being a great place to live with rising crime due to what seems to be a lot of police inaction now. I consider myself a Dem, but a centrist, and I suspect many of us are, and are now caught in the middle of this tug of war, and Covid is not helping things.
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I'm like you, I search for stuff all the time, and am not afraid to try something, like clicking on the ellipses, which typically leads to some good, but typically hidden features in many forums and on YT comments, like reporting an abusive commenter, or to edit YOUR post etc.
I have been known to be short tempered when a simple question is asked on YT and it's clear the asker had not even bothered to try to search for the answer. This sometimes means I'm very, blunt as one, I don't believe in bleeding heart liberalism, let alone being politically correct as I find either one often does not do anything positive or helpful to anyone.
Recently, have had to block a commenter on Quora where she thought she knew what she was talking about, so I politely replied, correcting her, she came back with more BS, so I did the same, after the third time, I just said, I think you meant monotropism for us autistic folk and then proceeded to find her profile and blocked and muted her. Don't normally like doing that, but sometimes you just have to. I had a gal accuse me of info dumping when I really wasn't, then proceeded to cancel me, again, on Quora.
But I agree, ask your favorite search engine and experiment. Just have a backup handy to recover if things go awry, which for most folks, it should not do so. I use Duck, Duck Go for my search these days, but even there, asking things does not always lead to what I'm after.
By doing so, and indicating you did so, you will reduce the chance of someone biting your head off, so to speak.
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First off, didn't even notice the image was soft in any way, though I did detect at least once the focus shift, like when you leaned back for a moment. Then again, I was watching your lips (yes, I read them) and yes, autistic, and have CRS with hearing deficits and was taught during speech therapy in the late 60's how to read lips.
I don't rock, but do other aspects of stimming though.
I only got into DSL in 2001 when still with US West (before they got bought out by Centrylink several years later), now I run 5G via Verizon Wireless. 50Mbs down, around 20Mbs up. fine for my needs, though they do promise up to 2G down and I do reach somewhere near that some of the time.
BTW, your "harsh" edits are way better than most as it's not an actual jump cut.
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Had to replace my old desktop a year ago October and got a refurbished Dell Optiplex, a 7 year old i5 based SFF and it came with Windows 11. It's been mostly trouble free and it's really more than fine and not enough different than 10 in basic operations.
I, however, do have a retail copy of 10 sitting on a shelf that was for the old SFF Dell Optiplex, though a 4th gen i5 model that had 10 (also bought refurbished), but it threw a code that said mainboard failure (turned out to be the CMOS battery having died, but finding out after the fact and the upgrade had already taken place). Mind you, the SFF was NOT my first choice for the present computer, wanted to get the mini tower instead but the place only had the SFF, with NVME no less for $170 so that's what I have currently.
Saving up the funds for a total replacement in the coming year, like going ahead with the new 15th gen Core 7, likely the Ultra as it's what's available at the moment. So with that, will build it from scratch and initially put Win 10 and then do a free upgrade to 11.
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@9852323 In this case, the old dell was one, a 10 year old PC, running a 4th gen Intel i5 processor, and 2, it sprung a code for mainboard failure, turned out, AFTER the fact to be the CMOS battery needed replacing, but the newer PC was already purchased, and has NVME.
I hope to replace this present PC by next year with something more robust than a 7 YO core i5, SFF from Dell.
Both were purchased refurbished locally, the older PC was in 2019, and only meant to be for the short term because of dying hard drive and it's had many other parts replaced since I bought it new in 2009, first gen Core i7 that was then getting quite long in the tooth, but 4 years in, still on it... It ran an older Ferni based Nvidia GT 610, now deprecated, so it would not work with 11 due to no support for DX X 12 of which 11 requires. This was all in 2023. At that time, support ended for both Ferni and Keplar, Maxwell was still under support, as is Pascal.
So now run a GT 1030 as it was one of the very few cards that'll work with the 188W PSU and the confined space of a SFF desktop.
I hope to go all the way to the 15th gen Core 7 and Z890 chipset as LGA 1700 is at end of life for upgrading as it stops at the 14th gen Core series CPU's. This will give me an upgrade path, should I need it going forward.
Not for gaming, but for content creation.
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Beginning last fall, had to unexpectedly replace my desktop when it threw a wrong error code (failed mainboard) when it was really, the CMOS battery that had died. But didn't realize that until AFTER the fact. Now I run a 7th gen Core i5 processor from 2017, rather than the 4th gen variant of the same (2013) and in February, bought a replacement laptop for a very old Inspiron from 2006 as pricing out replacement 40GB HDD for SSD would have cost me about as much as purchasing a refurbished laptop as the Inspiron ran IDE instead of SATA, if I could even find new IDE drives (doubt it). The laptop is an 8th gen i5, built in 2019 (early I believe).
Both are Dell machines, both bought refurbished, both business class machines at that, running Windows 11, one Pro, the other Home. Both with i5 processors. Anyway, they are both OEM OS's and I still need to create a recovery disk, just not sure if I need 2 or 1 since they run different variants of 11. I have performed backups of both, each on their own drive (spare mechanical 500GB drives I have laying around). The next thing are all the externals on my desktop that are filled with data folders that should be backed up.
But before I do that, need to go through documents and what not and consolidate/clean up of unfinished work that I no longer am working on and delete those, then get them all to ONE location, instead of scattered about on several drives. I still have a few pieces of software I need to reinstall, but have most of what I need for now for both machines. Mind you, the laptop does not need as much software as my desktop as it's not my main machine, but is for viewing YT videos at the kitchen table, and other occasional work, and for travel and capturing analog audio from the stereo. Just need a digital interface for that to happen.
But all computers will need the occasional cleanup/maintenance and clean out of dust from time to time to keep them running their best. The biggest thing now is I frequently am running 13GB of my 16GB of memory on the desktop, and am thinking of bumping that to 32GB. Eventually, a new build will be in the works that will be something other than a SFF Optiplex, running an i7 processor of at least the 12th gen. First need to update my spreadsheet for that project and then begin to save the money.
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I'd heard of autolyse but have not done it, as right now, my bread baking is when I make pizza.
I use the Fleishman's yeast recipe that's found on the pizza yeast packets and online on their website. I initially found the recipe off the packets, then got it from online.
Anyway, it does not require any rising, but I do that step as I almost never use pizza yeast these days (it helps with reducing spring back and is much easier to roll out for inexperienced bread bakers).
Anyway, I use the food processor for the initial kneading by putting in the ingredients and yeast/water/sugar mixture (to proof), the oil and salt, and about a cup and a quarter of flour or so and whizz up until it forms a ball and cleans the bowl some, then let it run for about 3-5 min, then turn out onto a floured surface.
I do what I learned from the late, great Julia Child, and that is slap the dough around on the counter no more than 3 minutes before rolling into a ball and into the rising container, a 3.5Qt Cambro container that's been spritzed with cooking spray, then I spritz the top of dough and put the cover on it, and place it at the back of the stove while the oven is heating up to rise to almost double. That is the ONLY rise I give it, it's also like letting it sit and rest, except it rises to almost double in size.
Then I pour it out onto a floured surface, and gently fold it several times then form a ball again, by this point, the dough is smooth and then roll out into a 12" pizza. This same dough can be rolled out to 16" for a thin crust if desired.
It's easy to do and I can have the dough made up, rolled out, ready for the topping(s) and then bake at 550F for 10 minutes. Works every time if I don't screw something up in the process and happens every so often.
I should say, I've done this for a while and have honed it and refined it to where I now use active dry or rapid rise pretty much exclusively and have added the rising step. This became the way when I got yeast whichever was available during the height of the pandemic when many food staples were scarce, like yeast, flour and sugar.
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I stumbled onto this episode just now and it brings joy seeing a vintage Dodge from the 60's being preserved. this one was in very good survivor mode for a convertible from the rust belt? Anyway, It brings back memories of my parents old Dodge 330 station wagon with the slant six. It was the base trim so had the torque flite transmission with pushbutton controls.
Anyway, like this 880, it had AC, AM pushbutton radio, roof racks, wind deflectors on the D pillars, and full wheel covers. It was white with blue interior like this one, and came with only 2 lap belts standard, driver and front passenger, my late father added belts for the rest of the positions, front and back and had the dealer install them as we knew we'd need a new car to drove all the way across the country from Jacksonville FL to Washington State, and McChord AFB that year.
We end up moving out of this area in 1967 to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, then to Jacksonville while he did his tour of Vietnam in 1968-69 and was asked where he'd wanted to retire, back to McChord and UP, which is what we did, so the wagon made the trip across the country twice.
We'd ended up keeping the car until 1977 and sold it then with about 145K miles on it and a second transmission, still running, though not great by then.
Due to that car, I have developed a soft spot for Chrysler products since then as we have had several other dodges/plymouths since then and I even had a 1968 Newport, never mind a base pillared 4 door for my first car in HS in the early 80's.
Both my grandmother's 2 door base 330 and our wagon were white with blue interiors, hers stayed white but we repainted our car in 1968 in a sky blue and it's now one of my top colors for a car.
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When I built my PC in January, I thought ahead and had downloaded everything. all software etc, including Windows 11 Pro. Sadly, Macrum Reflect is no longer free they only allow free use for 30 days, That way, I could delay getting on the net, and this did include downloading all driver updates from Gigabyte, Intel etc as I needed new updates for things like the graphics card, the Motherboard, its chipset drivers etc as this was a new built I put together, not bought as turnkey.
So once the PC was ready to be plugged in and installation began, I had everything labeled and on USB drives so it was a matter of installing onto a USB port and go down the list and hit install. Don't recall if I updated the BIOS first, or installed Windows (both on their own USB sticks) and yes, did use the BIOS update port on the back to install that and had my Windows 10 retail key to install/register 11 Pro onto the new machine, and then proceeded to updated drivers etc, then software. I told Windows no internet, and was able to set up a local account lickity split.
At the moment Davinci Resolve 19.1.4 is acting strange but am working on a rather large, multi timeline project with lots of stills and 4K video and today it's been funky as all get out, but I now have a setup for backups and need to do just that with a paid variant of Macrium. EaseTo Do is the same, no free versions either. Fortunately, it's not expensive to purchase.
Backups are where I have not followed but the rest I mostly did.
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I completely agree, though if you have to install something that asked you to temporarily turn off Defender, do so, then turn it back on, as soon as your done.
I'm looking at you Adobe with CS4. Around, oh, 2013, 14? I forget, had to reinstall Adobe Master Suite for some reason and forgot to turn on Defender, and not long after that, I got a screen full of pop ups, and they kept coming, and coming, and coming, had to save files etc, then wipe and reinstall Windows (this was Vista), Again, began to install software, got to Adobe, and again, had to turn off Defender, install, but forgot to turn back on Defender. The same issue reappeared.
Got infected, yet again, and I believe the registry was infected and Windows got gorked, yet again. After that second time, I DID remember to turn Defender back on after Adobe was installed and the issue never reared its ugly head again.
The other day, I think it was Thanksgiving evening, my internet was unusually slow, running at best 20mbps, when it normally runs 180-195mbps, but the next morning, it was back to normal. This is why I keep a speed test active so I can periodically check my internet speed, and most days, I run well over 100mbps, often close to 200mbps, if not a tad above even that.
I do have an issue, but suspect my graphics card, now 7 years old, and with 2GB of memory on board, computer has 32GB, and is a 7th gen Core i5 processor and I think the graphics card may be throttling as it sometimes when I go to another tab that is not YT related, and come back to YT, it stutters for a few before catching up, and occasionally it freezes all together. I know part of it is poor air circulation due to the card having to sit right next to the PSU with an itty bitty gap between the card and supply (SFF Dell Optiplex, planning on doing a full upgrade next year).
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West coaster here. Been cold here but has also warmed up to 40's-50's during the day, low 40's overnight, for now. However, it's been WET though. Some of the weather seen elsewhere in the US begins right here from northern CA to BC in the form of rain. Found a dry moment yesterday to take down the outdoor lights on my one tree out front. The extension cord still needs to be put away however.
As for length of videos, 45 minutes to an hour often is fine for me, but anything longer, I have to split up. That said, take a look at Eric O @ SMA, and Eric at I Do Cars for how to deal with longer videos. Eric O will not always show both sides if say, doing brakes, but being that he also deals with rusty, crusty vehicles, he will show any differences/struggles the particular car may induce, but otherwise, will only show one side, or part of the other side where he feels it's important.
Both Erics will show either cleaver editing of a repetitive process, like removing lug nuts, also speeding up as needed to keep longer videos to a reasonable length. When you had to deal with the LB7 diesel Silverado, that is when the exceptions come in as both banks are different due to what's got to be removed before getting to the injectors. Even there, some judicial editing/speed ramps can keep it from being too long. Yes, I know it'll mean more editing but can keep the video lengths from running away from you.
I say, keep on keeping on Ray.
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@_________________404 I watch Brad Colbow on YT and he tests tablets, among them, huion, XP, Samsung, yes, their tablets, such as the Galaxy series and some of those are reasonably priced. I may pick one up for graphics use for videos on occasion, but do have Epic Pen, but without a tablet to use it on, it's not usable much as is and I don't have a touch screen on my desktop. I do on my laptop, a Dell Latitude that can double as a tablet, but it lives in the living room most of the time and something like the Samsung may be better for use tethered to my desktop.
I have an old Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but never could get the hang of it so it sits, gathering dust.
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Fantastic find, Bluetoothed and all, from the Midwest where rust is king and yes, I watch Eric O in the PNRY work on rusty crap, same with Watch Wes Work up in IL, though typically, they are older than the stuff Eric works on in NY typically, though he does get the occasional oldie in that's not driven much and still mostly rust free.
Seeing the end there where you show the frame as you drive, there is literally no section of frame left I don't think as there was significant weight reduction where the cab meets the bed and broke clean in half. That was epic, seeing how the frame was as bad as it actually was, yet still barely stayed together.
Gotta agree the classic 318 was the pedestrian V8 option, but bullet proof, like the slant 6.
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Actually, from what I know, salting to taste is not to TASTE the salt per se, but how the overall DISH tastes.
So add salt at the beginning, but be conservative as said, then add salt later, and be conservative, and add more until it tastes just right. Some of us are more sensitive to the taste of salt, and some like Morton, or store brand kosher salt can be easily oversalted and be too salty, whilst Krystal Diamond does not have that issue, and why you should use table salt in the beginning, and then kosher near the end, when adjusting seasoning.
As to enameled cast iron? Yes, definitely, especially for Dutch ovens as they are a true workhorse in the kitchen for most cooks as they can go from stove or oven to table, and is heavy and can stand acidic foods without fear of ruining your seasoning.
As to lower priced enameled pots, best to not go for the aluminum ones as those may be too thin, unless doing canning or boiling lots of water for a big batch of pasta.
America's Test Kitchen has done tests to cast iron enameled pots and found some worked alright, some had handles that were too small, others chipped easily, and both Staub and Le Crueset both came out well, but did edge the LC over the Staub due to the less dark interior. One brand has been found to be well worth the price and is quite affordable (in the $50 or so) is from Cuisinart, believe it or not. I have an older one, but the enamel does not hold up well in the dishwasher as it's gotten all chalky and matte like, but I've had it over 10 to start with and is my 3Qt pot. I believe Lodge did alright too. So there are alternatives, just have to know how they performed is all.
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At present, I have 3 externals. One is a Simpletech 3.5" I bought in 2008 that is still going strong. Thought it used a WD drive, but it appears it actually has a Hitachi drive in it. I don't access it much as it's all storage, divided into video, photos and music (or audio) partitions. It's full for the most part, though photos and video partitions are not.
Then I have 2 WD passports (2.5") mechanical external drives, one 500GB that WAS to be for backups, but the software from WD, I could not figure out if it actually saved, or backed up anything, or not, so abandoned things all together, however, did a clone of my HD using the then free Macrium Reflect and it did great in 2019, until I tried to restore my boot drive a couple of years later after a cleaning, not realizing initially I may have swapped SATA cables and the image got horked. That went that.
Now, I have 2, 3.5" mechanical drives at 500GB each, both used, and from 2013/14, but to start off, it'll do. I will get cases for them eventually, but have an adapter that has a power supply, good for IDE/SATA drives for now, and I have a dock that can accept 2 drives that is connected to the desktop, and can do an internal clone of one to the other. I also have two Dell computers, one a laptop, the other a desktop (both business workstations, bought used. So one drive for each. Software will be EaseUS for backups and cloning.
in 2008, I did tons of research on my first external, looking for defects, poor design etc, and one, a Hitachi had major issues on the 1TB and higher capacity due to poor ventilation cooling so the drives overheated, some had defective controllers, others bad USB cables (a bad batch at that time), and how frequently they were found defective, and if they had the capacity I was looking for (500GB), LaCie didn't go beyond 350GB being one example. In the end, the Simpletech (now owned by Hitachi) won out as it while not perfect, had the fewest issues overall than just about everyone else, and came in a 500GB capacity. As I said, it's been holding up, though in recent years, it stays powered up and connected, but I rarely access it unless I'm looking for something in particular going back several years that is on it.
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@Reziac Yes, I buy WD hard drives typically, in fact got a 4TB mechanical as a video archive drive in a new build I put together back in January.
Technically, WD bought HGST, a subsidiary of Hitachi to make their hard drives (mechanical). That occured in 2012, and Hitachi bought out IBM's Hard drive business in 2003. If not mistaken, I had an IBM Deskstar that supposedly had ceramic platters, which were problematic and mine died due to stickshon (sp?) where the head would create ceramic dust and cause the platters to stick to the head.
The purchase ONLY affected the mechanical drive market between the two. HGST= Hitachi global storage technologies.
I thought I saw mention that SimpleTech used WD drives, but CrystalDiskinfo says it's a Hitachi drive (HDP model #) at 500GB.
When I bought my Simple Drive in 2009, the Pinafarrina style case, that was what I thought was inside, a WD drive. Anyway, it's been a solid drive all this time.
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Interesting story. I ran into an issue with an install of Windows 7 two years ago where I had to upgrade from Vista that had just gone off support in 2018 and was running an older version of Firefox and some sites like MSN's Outlook no longer worked right so through the help of a friend, I found an image of Win 7 to install. It all appeared fine, I installed and registered it, all was fine for several months until the end of 2018, then the original 10 YO HD on my old Dell began to fail and I don't recall all that happened, but ultimately, I had to reimage the drive from the same source, only that source now no longer worked and became fishy and what I had was apparently belong slowly shut down by MS as it discovered it was not a legit install. Apparently, I may have downloaded what was an OEM image of 7, not a retail version, even had the key and all. Anyway, by this point, I was forced to reinstall (or try anyway) my old Vista OS but the drive failing, was losing sectors left and right and I tried to get a fresh drive, only to not being able to install a boot partition as disk part was corrupt - so ended up with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with Windows 10 Pro, an OEM image with product key sold to used PC retailers and the like other than upping the memory from 8 to 16G, I had to a week ago replace the 120G SSD that this machine came fitted with for a 500G version and I cloned the drive, all partitions and so far, so good. I still need to extend the C partition as Macrium would not let me extend the partition since I was going to a larger drive for some reason.
So at least Windows 7, on they can get you if you try to cheat with the OS. Oh, MS did the same with my OEM copy of Office 2007 that I bought with the old Dell so now use Libra Office instead.
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@joe42m13 Yep, even on the west coast, in working class, rural counties, the minimum wage is now $15-17/Hr at many retail operations. Mind you, likely not guaranteed FT. But it's a way to FILL the job, otherwise it'll go begging. in 2018, it was found that the county I live in was needing to raise incomes and did so kicking and screaming. One company was asking for a lot of skills, then asking something like $12.50/Hr, had a time fulfilling the position, and was told by a temping agency to either reduce expectations or raise the income or preferably both. Not sure if they ever did or got the position fulfilled or not. But the deed was done, and most places now are asking well above the state minimum wage, which still is not to $15/Hr I don't think yet.
Much of the working class type of jobs that used to reside in factories etc are increasingly in retail/office environments as technology has invaded most jobs, even in the factories you need to know how to work many machines that once didn't exist in the past.
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Sorry to hear of this, but as some have noted, not totally unexpected and you seemed to be ready to move on.
That said, I think a lot of the so called "lack of workers can also be blamed on many employers making this problem worse by they treat, hire or get rid of employees, or don't and a lot of us are realizing this and some are responding in like kind by ghosting etc. I am not doing that, but having had trouble getting, let alone keeping work as an adult, it all came to a head late last year and this year, thanks, no thanks to Covid 19 and being let go as my position in a print shop at a local 2 year college closed down due to the pandemic. Age plays a part here for me as at 57, I'm nearing retirement and ageism is likely got a major role, and add to that, it's been suspected, but the situation made me pursue it and it turns out, not only am I a prenatal Rubella baby (known of that since birth) but now am Autistic as well (been there from birth too, but it is high function so not realized until many years later) and I may end up back at this same college in the same IT dept, but perm, and PT and I work on earning extra money through side gigs like YT.
Applied to the position last week so am awaiting until it closes and then to hear back from my former boss and friend there to see if an interview is on the horizon.
At any rate, from what I gather, you will land on your feet soon enough. Good luck!
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Not sure where your getting that, I am looking at the MSI Pro Z790 MB and it has 4 NVME slots, one directly from the CPU, (they are all PCIE 4), PCIE 5.0 for the graphics card, a plethora of USB 2.0/3.0/3.1/3.2 and USB C, WiFi/BT connectivity etc. Oh, it has I think 6 SATA ports, but are shared by 2 of the NVME slots if not mistaken. Oh, this will hopefully run DDR5 and an i7 processor.
The point is, if you stick with the Z790 chipset, you WILL get all the connectivity for mid to higher end PC builds, but not when you go with the B760-H770 chipsets.
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I have used Acrobat and when Adobe shut down the CS4 servers recently, I only discovered this when I tried to reinstall CS4 Master Suite, which contains Acrobat 9, among other programs and I could not reinstall due to needing to do a sudden PC replacement at the time, and no, not a drive issue, but "mainboard failure" issue, turned out to be a dead CMOS battery, but it never threw that code.
Anyway, run PDF Gear now and in many ways, it's better than Acrobat. You can take a form, scan it into your PC, open it, and add editable dialog boxes for either you, or others to fill out, save as PDF (boxes get flatten upon resaving) and you now have a typed PDF form. I've seen these offered on rare occasions online, and can generate them myself, either for me to fill out, resend back as PDF or sent off as an attachment to a third party to fill out, resave as a PDF and send back to me, I was then able to download and reattach into a new email. Worked like a charm.
However, fixing PDF's is another story, as you say, best to save as a Word or equivalent document, then resave a new updated version as PDF.
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This was very good, and only in the past couple of years have I seen what it takes to get things from point A to B. Take buying a turntable in the US as I did in 2020. I bought a Rega P6, new from Music Direct, which is headquartered in Chicago, I live on the west coast and tracked it through Chicago to Wisconsin, to Minnesota, to N. Dakota, Montana, and through the panhandle of Idaho into Washington State, much of that trip was via I-94. It did veer off that highway in places before joining I-90 into Washington State, but it didn't go through the state, but went down and entered Oregon through the east side and through the Dalles into Portland and the warehouse in Troutdale (this all via FedEx), it got on the wrong truck leaving Troutdale and got quite a ways when it was discovered, and it had to go BACK to Troutdale and get transferred to the RIGHT truck to Tacoma where I live before it could make it on the local truck for delivery, a day late.
Tracking showed it having made it back to Troutdale, was there for about 45 minutes before getting on the correct truck later that day to head my way. It arrived early that morning like, 4 something AM and it literally got to the sorting facility in downtown Tacoma, and right on the local truck, just in time for delivery. I got it a day late, but tracking it helped me plan for it. It was delivered to the local Walgreens store near my house as directed by the address I ave them as an alternative mailing address (as they work with Walgreens to be a delivery point) and I got it and picked it up after work. This was in May of 2020 during the height of the pandemic, shortly after it came real in March.
So there is a lot to all this, and it doesn't take much to disrupt the supply chain and we are still seeing this now with my local Fred Meyer often being picked over in some things and it's most acute on Sundays as the store gets picked over before new supplies arrive.
This is partly why I still shop at local stores because if they have it, I can just grab it and be home ASAP, rather than order something, wait for it to arrive, often days to a week later and pay the extra shipping costs on top of the item itself, and let's not forget the sales tax if you have it in your state (as we do). Then it's hoping porch bandits don't run off with your order, but I say that the onus is on US as consumers to mitigate that by having alternative delivery points available of you know you won't be there to pick it up off your porch. As it is, crime is getting really bad here and thus I must be vigilante with my deliveries to mitigate this issue, and it should not have to be, but it is what it is, until local jurisdictions and the state work to clamp down on crime.
Agree with several respondents here that too many do not have an inkling as to how things get to them when they order online and expect it in as little as the next day and not get off the couch.
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Seeing what the car is/was doing early on, I wondered as you showed us the cam shafts, non interference. I have the FSDE (2.0) in a Mazda P5 wagon (2003) and had the spring for the Tensioner had sproinged and embedded itself in the timing belt. Due to not knowing IF the timing belt had ever been replaced when this happened (150K or so) miles, I thought the better part of valor was to fix the tensioner spring, replace the timing belt itself. I bought the car with 110K+ on it and the dealer where I bought it could not verify if it had ever been replaced then. So felt better safe than sorry.
Ran into all kinds of problems, and in the end, both timing marks for the cams needed to 1, point to each other, and 2, both be level, well, the issue was, not meeting No 2, so once I rectified that, it ran great, no running like poo at idle rev it and it ran great. It just ran great.
This same car now has over 200K on the clock and still chugging along. It, will, however, need the valve cover gasket replaced before long.
Despite being shot at, hit once (minor ding at the rear bumper, a shattered corner rear window (covered in plastic and tape), having had a period hard life with some slight maintenance negligence here and there, it still runs, so is durable, and have owned since early 2012. Can't complain all things considered. Oh, have the money light on, but the last time I checked the codes, it was a large air leak or something like that. It does periodically go out, but will stay out and eventually come back on. Meanwhile I live with it and it just chooches along just fine.
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Speaking of church vans, how about a church camp van? This van reminds me of back in 1983 when attending a spring conference for the Episcopal Dioceses of Western Washington who puts on 3 weekend conferences for kids from 7-12th grades, with 7-9 being Jr conferences, 10-12 for HS, anyway, that spring, the conference was held at Friday Harbor Washington on the great San Juan Island at the town of Friday Harbor and living in Tacoma, the van had to traverse south from north of Seattle down I-5 to get a bunch of us here in town before making the trek north via I-5.
At the time, they had a 2 tone green Dodge van, I think either a 72, or 73 extended van at that and would head north, picking up several more kids in or around Seattle before continuing north. The van still had an actual ammeter and recall the dash noting the needle wiggling back and forth as the camp director drive, and I think mostly noted the issue coming home as he had the lights on and the dash lights etc were flickering.
The trip lead us all way north in the state to US 20 and we then headed west to Anacortes, which is still on the main land to the ferry terminal, which is how one gets to the San Juan Islands as a whole. By this point, we were at the northern inlet to Puget Sound and where it met with the Straight Juan De Fuca that leads to the Pacific so quite a trek and the van made it back without issue. Yes, the van came all the way to the island and stayed the weekend then took us kids back to our homes, or rather, to designated drop offs before heading to the camp, which is north of Seattle in Snohomish County in the Cascade foothills.
BTW, the camp is owned by the dioceses.
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When I had more than one PC (Windows), I have tried to network them, often without success. Part of the issue was the very cheap WiFi dongle I had purchased at RE PE in 2012 to network my late mother's old machine to mine, both ran XP and one was, I kept loosing the connection (Mom's PC was cleaned up, a copy of XP reloaded back on as the original install got corrupted and it sat in the living room and I ran it wirelessly via WiFi but the connection was apparently unreliable.
Fast forward to last year or the year before, again with the WiFi dongle, tried to network 2 PC's, one being XP (Mom's old PC) and a much newer 4th gen Dell SFF running Win 10, no dice and later found out the dongle had died.
Fast forward to this year, 2 Windows 11 machines, one another Dell SFF (8th gen i5) running 11 Pro and a Dell Latitude laptop with 11 Home and it had built in WiFi. I was able to get them talking to each other, get both on the same workgroup, file share one or two folders (namely documents and music), set both to private, et voila, I can zip music files from one to the other, or the whole folder, especially if I decide to add a playlist to Windows Media Player for playback with the stereo via a docking station and digital interface. I also have a joint dongle for a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse for use at the stereo in the living room.
All it took was a bit of Googling for the instructions and I was able to get both talking to each other without too much difficulty.
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I voted Harris/Walz and deposited my ballot on Monday at a voter drop box and it was picked up by officials and accepted, awaiting to be counted. For all partisan races, all blue.
I think with Harris suddenly thrown into the limelite for the presidency, she had to take time to firm up her plans and contingencies for her presidency, should she win and now we are seeing some of the fruits of that, having had to jump in, in the last half of July. I knew who I was voting for once she picked her running mate. I have seen through Trumps lies for a very long time, once I became aware of him in the Apprentice days.
It's obvious that Kamala is very capable of holding a steady demeanor in times of crisis and not fly off the handle, like many of us might, including Trump.
I do think she may take the best of Biden's administration and build on those, and add her own to it to forger her own way forward.
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@ezgolf1764 I don't use as much water than is usually recommended to boil the pasta itself and don't usually pour in my salt, do what Kenji Lopez Alt does, a couple of good pinches and that's all. Usually the water just covers most pasta. I will use a bit more for long pastas such as Spaghetti, fettuccine etc and even then, a saute pan works great for that, unless its in use, which is typically is for the sauce.
Your reply makes sense now, but I don't reduce that can increase the saltiness of the water. The only time I reduce anything is once the sauce is made, I'll add some sour cream and reduce that just so when I move the spoon in the pan, it does not come back together right away as a way to thicken the sauce some, only exception is when making carbonara as the cheese will do the thickening, along with the bacon renderings.
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Not Leo but incremental Vs differential is easy, incremental is for daily backups of anything that's changed on a day to day basis, differential is say, twice a week, and finally the full image once a month to keep your full image updated. You need to be using all three. That is what I believe Leo recommends and have set up Macreum Reflect similarly, and automatically.
I should also mention that you only need to have at minimum, one image of each and set the program up to keep things updated automatically, so my incremental backups keep one other image, same with differential, and full image (I think I have it set to keep 2). This way, I can restore as needed.
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@nonyabusiness557 Technically, Vietnam, if not mistaken, began when the French were attacked, and we came to their defense, thus we got dragged into it. The bulk of the issues with Vietnam was Johnson dragging it out, and Nixon took a while, but his big success was ending the war, though it happened AFTER he left office in resignation. Saigon fell in 1975, officially ending the Vietnam war. Sadly, Watergate overshadowed it all.
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Also, was watching to the end in the hopes you mention one I know of, hover. Most email programs allow you to do this. Just hover over the Ask Leo or similar and the email shows up in a dialog box. Often those are often NOT correct, spam. One I found many moons ago when I wrote an instruction sheet for 2 nieces at their step dad's behest is look at the domain itself, be it a website, or email and for Government sites, the GOV will be used, but if not, likely it's not legit. So for instance, GSA.GOV is a legit Gov website. However, if it says anything else like com or whatever, chances are it's not legit. This was over 20 years ago now so stuff like that was in existence then, as it is now.
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Oh please... I think they are likely a bunch of tree huggers that do not understand that sometimes a tree MUST come down, usually due to poor health, being a major leaner or the roots have heaved up sidewalks, streets etc due to outgrowing their space, or if they fall, are much likely to fall on a building or people that walk by.
Some trees may look "healthy" but are not all that healthy as they can rot from the inside, Trees that were cabled due to damage from a storm, eventually may need to be taken down and there are lots of other reasons why a tree must come down that are considered legitimate.
My best friend, and his father when he owned the house had to take out a bunch of tall firs due to potential dangers many of then posed to property, theirs and others, but not all were taken out, but now the backyard gets way more sun than it had before though, a plus.
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One I see a lot on forums especially are on tech, or editing forums, or forums for a particular software, like Davinci Resolve, Hitfilm (now likely defunct) etc is how many do not mention in any way, what they are using, what VERSION of the program they are running etc.
Many NLE's for instance will have minim specs, as well as ideal specs for a particular version, and anything relatively current, typically have higher recommended specs over an older variant, and after you get them to reply with their computer, CPU, GPU, memory etc, come to find out, they were well under spec for the version they are running, and no wonder the issue is the program keeps crashing etc.
Right now with Hitfilm, there are places, like Quora where you can ask about an issue with your software, and with Hitfilm, it's now run by Artlist, and they shut down the software's forum about 2 years ago, and likely have stopped supporting it, even though many can still download and use it. Many of us have had to say, don't use it, and why and give another avenue, like get Davinci Resolve instead, and likely folks have not a clue as to what has happened with Hitfilm. Before Hitfilm was bought by Artlist, it was considered one of the better free editing suites, and was even better if you purchased it. A one time fee, and a perpetual license is granted with updates indefinitely. Artlist went all subscription only, and offer a reduced free version but is locked to 1080 only or you get a watermark. So most of us that had been using it bailed.
Anyway, it's not just tech stuff, but in general, many folks, as you pointed out don't give the whole story, so to speak, or read the instructions. Even on YT, most don't read the description even, when some of the most important links etc are in there and then ask in the comments when they could have taken a few moments to check the description.
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@pinwizz69 While that is true, and I note that some will say, the millennials go to as much as 2000, not saying that's correct or not, but that some say, 1996 or some say 2000 when the millennial generation ended.
As for Gen x, even back in the mid 90's there was controversy over when it begins, with some sources saying more like 1962-63, others from 1965 as some of the children born in the early 60's related more to the Gen X than to their boomer peers. The same as to when the Gen X ended, though I think it has mostly settled on 1980 for us. That said, most people I know who are of a similar age as me, had parents that married in their early 20's and had kids not too many years after that.
These days, yes, many kids now have children later. I have a niece who was born in the early to mid 90's, is around 30 and had her first child Christmas 2021, She only married her husband in 2019.
So yes, most generations run around a decade, but some like Gen X ran for longer. I have 2 nieces who were born in 1982, so are millennials, a niece born in 1997 that may, or may not be a millennial still.
Even the Boomers ran from something like 1946-1964, according to some sources, but even so, I think I read that Gen X even surpassed that in terms of length, but perhaps not as much by numbers as families got smaller with many being at most a 2 child household, rather than the average of 4.
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@SharonHillkopf Read my post very carefully, and by reference, I drive a 2003 Mazda Protege 5 wagon with a digital odo, so 6 digits, now 10's of a mile included.
Right now, it has something like 240000, or 240.000 miles on it (it's rough as I don't recall specifically at the moment, but it is over 200.000 miles. This BMW is one year newer, and has the same 6 digit odo (also digital) and the big dot next to the trip meter is the temper signal, when present, and in this case, as Eric noted, 027000is just that, 27000 miles, the 0 in front of the 2 would be a 1, 2, 3, or 4 for the 100th mile digit, get it?
As far as I know, no car has 7 digits, yet. But the way things are going, we may not get there any time soon due to problems with cars now being made/sold.
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I'm not a gamer, nor interested in overclocking, nor water cooling, but I DO need to upgrade my PC. I run a run of the mill SFF Dell Optiplex with a 7th gen i5 and currently sits at 32GB of RAM as that's all it can handle.
I do content creation, like you, have a channel and do my own editing and I can do OK on a 2GB of VRAM Nvidia GT1030 GPU at 1080P and want to move to 4K. Even as is, it does not scrub terribly smoothly, especially in reverse but I can edit on it nonetheless. I run an older version of DR, which does have the cut page and Fusion page, Ideally, should have 4GB, but with a weak sauce PSU (188W), I'm stuck with the 1030 due to not needing much power, and is low profile.
I have been planning on Intel for CPU, likely the GPU, but waiting to see if Battlemage becomes available, or it'll be Arc A770. If battlemage, it's equivalent A770 like model.
I'm looking at 1500 all told for the most part for the entire build, not including the monitor as I had to replace that recently. It's 4K, IPS panel and is a budget friendly model from Dell. Yes, I can see 4K videos on this present system, but would love to run DR 18.6, or 19 but can't at the moment, so run DR 16.
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I have been a long time user of Windows, going back to DOS/Win 3.1 in the early 90's, though some sporadic use of a Windows box before that point (late 80's). I run Windows 11 currently on a brand new build I put together in January and throughout most iterations I've used (3.1-95/98, some ME, a smattering of 2K, XP, Vista, some Win 7, then 10, and now 11 Pro.
The bigger issue is where same feature is now found in the newest variant of Windows and once I figure that out, I'm fine.
I do wonder if the current CEO is at fault, recently, I've seen some comments regarding many CEO's (and Trump) as being narcissists, or psychopathic, or sociopaths in nature, and there may well be truth to that as it was speculated with the CEO of United Healthcare when he was murdered in recent months. This I can see as when Bill Gates left Microsoft, the company went downhill it seems and that feels not good as they were instrumental to the birth of the home computer and its popularity through wide adoption and comparability.
I find that from what I've read, Linux CAN be a solution, but knowing the good distro's that are windows like is all together different and many programs now have ported their products to Linux these days, but not all though. At this time, I would rather just keep using Windows until it becomes no more and then move to a windows like distro of Linux.
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Nice work on that Clark Wes, sick and all. I rarely get sick, some of my most sickest came in the late 80's, early 90's, including a chest infection, an intestinal infection (the following year, literally, and both during spring break), then the flue a couple of years later or so, at that point, both parents and I had it all at the same time. Still in my 20's at that point.
None of it was fun. Recently, went through 3 years of surgeries, beginning with a colon surgery for a blockage/mass, then a hernia the following year, and this year, slipped on black ice in late Nov and broke my femur. All healed now, but still am still and needing to add muscle strength back as well as flexibility at 59.
Hear ya on the weather. It's the beginnings of the ups/downs of volatile early spring weather, even though we are still about 2 weeks away from spring's official arriving.
Today, it's in the 30's still at 7:10 PST. Not expected to get above 45F with some sun, but ending up being mostly cloudy.
Last Friday, we didn't reach 40 and had rain/snow/slushy slop late afternoon, so winter has not totally lost its grip just yet. but we have had days with temps well in the 50's, so almost t-shirt weather, but all too brief though.
Anyway, get better.
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You are one of several folks I am subscribed to, Rainman Ray, SMA, you, Casey La Delle among several others. It's now what you do so much as how you go about it that entertains me. For Casey, it's what is he up to day? His videos are a smorgasbord of random, often related to heavy rescues etc, but his humor and shenanigans, some rather sketchy, and his "office", the great outdoors of Oregon.
It's the humor, demeanor and at times, the philosophy etc that interest me. This is why for cartoons, I love reading Calvin and Hobbs, Doonsbury, Bloom County (and Opus, but not as much as the OG) the Far Side and I think one other as their acerbic humor, philosophical, political humor, sometimes biting, sometimes not are funny, even if the political satire is 50 years old now (Doonsbury) but I often find it funny still.
Just keep being you and do what you like. It's always a treat to see how you overcome challenges, especially when a piece of machinery gets in the way and throws a curve ball and you just power through, often with sarcastic humor, a lot of it dry but funny.
Just keep on keeping on, and I'll continue to watch, after all, I did eventually subscribe last year or the year before.
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Scrolling through YT on my phone and came across this and watched it. Then later rewatched on the PC and noted first off, the first guy at the very beginning did so many things wrong, like turning off all lights, and not hitting flashers, then he gets in and out of his car at least twice, then is hit, with him inside, then he gets hit at least twice more as other people pile on.
Sad, but none of them bothered to hit flashers, most of these I think were older models that didn't have auto flashers in case of an accident, and no one bothered to turn them on. One car still had lights on, horn blaring. One car looked really bad, but no airbags looked to have deployed, if the car was new enough to have them. This being from the west coast, so not so uncommon to drive older vehicles.
Anyway, horrific accident, but good that many did use their heads and had flashers going as they slowly went past the accident scene, and more on the side of the road, but too many others going too fast, not bothering to slow down etc, several of them came close to causing more accidents as they suddenly veer to the right, one guy actually hit the wall in the process. As bad as it was, it could have been even worse.
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Another one is wifi router failures. Word is that with many routers, you need to replace them every 5 years or so. I bought my first stand alone wifi router in 2016 from Netgear, and it did great until it dropped the Mac address for my desktop computer, and no matter how I tried, it would not pick up the Mac address, this was around a year ago. Don't recall ever remembering to check for firmware updates, but the router would not see my desktop so my internet was severed there.
By this point, the router was over 5 years old, so bought the TP Link Archer 80 router and installed that and I had my internet back. Currently, running Verizon 5G wireless internet and its gateway occasionally needs to be reset, then my router is able to see the internet after a few minutes. I have updated the firmware at least once on the current router and perhaps the gateway as well.
I rarely have internet issues, but YouTube occasionally slows down, a refresh of the browser seems to solve that.
I do keep my router out in the open so that helps with heat buildup.
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I see this as multifaceted. That is, folks are used to "luxury" vehicles, electric everything, in other words, feature creep, size creep, SUV creep, the auto manufacturers were glad to give them all this, then price creep also ensues, now, the average mid sized sedan runs 40K-60K a piece on average, with little to no small vehicles available for those of us that prefer small vehicles to be had, that also cost 20K-25K or so.
Add in dealers trying to tack on features and prices to vehicles and it's a wonder that a basic standard cab truck is available for $40K these days as they are all luxury vehicles with crew cabs costing 60K+.
The Government insisting on EV's as if it's a panacea to everything that's wrong and banning gas based heat/cooking even in many states is putting the cart before the horse as electricity is not everything, especially right now with our electric grid being what it is.
I think we all have lost sight of things, and with politics being what it is at the moment, prices being what it is, it's a wonder folks are not buying. Add in rust in states that are in the rust belt, forcing folks to replace cars every 5-8 years as frames rust out, is not helping anything. I'm glad I don't live in the rust belt. I drive a car that's over 20 years old, still solid, has over 200K on it and going strong as I can't afford to replace it at the moment, so I just keep up on the maintenance and repair it as it needs it.
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I just watched the French Chef with Julia Child and for Beuf Burgenon, she did brown the meat first before the wine and into the oven to cook for something like 4 hours and she says, to leave it alone while in the oven. Hands off in other words. She even shows how to saute mushrooms, clean them and to cut them, and how to do the pearl onions, as in, how to boil them briefly and then peal then, though these days, you can get them frozen in bags in your grocer's freezer case.
Anyway, fun to watch her in her this show doing her thing. I suspect this was the preferred way to do a dish like this even back then, or earlier.
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Adam, A good video, however, I should point out that your knife and the camera, don't worry about the camera when cutting, that is, we can see how things get cut either way. Most chef's that cook on camera don't worry about the camera either and this is especially true for righties that often have the blade of the knife out front in front of the camera. Never try to angle your cutting for the camera, as that can cause problems with cutting and getting cut if not careful.
As to the claw, I do it, though not always exactly as it should be performed, but it's helped me keep from getting nicked, though I have nicked my finger nails a time or two.
I am not the fastest, but decent enough for home cooking, but getting better at it. One aspect of home cooking that should be kept in mind is you have to deal with a lot more than most pro chef's tend to per shift as you are cleaning as you go, cutting/chopping, sauteing etc for the full meal, while most chef's may be cutting vegetables the entire shift, others just assembling the entree etc. For the home cook, more to distract us and more likely to have a screw up so decent to good knife technique is preferable for the home when cooking for safety if nothing else.
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Yeah, inclined to agree, this was a northern car that was bought and "fixed" up being likely, and done by either a redneck or a shoddy shop. Looks to be a gussied up 383, mind you with Mopar parts, but gussied up. At least the clock does appear to work. I saw the second hand moving...
Outside of getting it into the garage, that car while looking good, from a distance, is all show, no go in the literal sense currently. Part of the issue is all the crap screwed into wimpy battery clamps.
If asking to ditch the car/refuse service, then I'm inclined to say, yes and explain why, unless this is the guy's doing or he bought it this way.
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That is why I don't use Google Docs, it's all online and saving it locally requires a work around, just to save it locally. I now use LibraOffice because I can save my work locally much easier. Just hit Con't+S, et voila, it's saved, or Con't + Shift+S to save as if a first save of a project, and it's on my internal drive under documents. I can then backup from that at a later date when I do backups, speaking of, need to do an incremental, now that I have a full backup done a couple of weeks ago, using EaseUS ToDo.
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Way to go Sheryl. I remember she made the scene with her first CD, Tuesday Night Music Club in 1993 and have her 2nd and third CD's during the grunge years. I'm of an age where I was still in my 20's when that whole scene began, beginning in the late 80's.
At that time, some of the bands finally came to my attention, Edie Brickell and the new Bohemians' first CD, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988) and 1991's Out of Time by REM. While a buddy of mine was into them during Murmur and Green, and I knew a few of their songs from the radio, but it was Out of Time that cemented them in my mind, then Sheryl Crow.
That was a musically rich time in my life as I went from my 20's to my 30's and part of that was a new radio station that went on the air in the early 90's, KMTT. An FM station in Seattle that played a wide smorgasbord of music from the mid to late 60's to then modern bands like Blues Traveler, Dave Mathews, Sheryl Crow etc and rarely played a song twice in any given day.
Anyway, any way we can combat Trump and Musk is good in my book, just as long as we make an effort to take then out of power.
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You know what's bad is Eric, and by extension, Don Jr are easy on the eyes and at initial glance, and some of us gays may think oh he's loveable etc, etc, but when they open their mouths, it's um, no. In the end, both need to have their suits ripped off, on camera and exposed for what they are, charlatans, puppets for their POS father and the sad thing is, neither realize this very sad fact.
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Autistic, intellectual disability and with congenital rubella, and yet, I learned how to manipulate a computer when my late father bought his first in the early 90's. A Dos based Packard Bell Legend 386 SX, so a cut down variant of the DX version and he managed to upgrade it to Windows 3.1 at minimum.
Today, I run a 7th gen i5 desktop (dell Optiplex) and an 8th gen i5 Dell Latitude laptop and got it to network together at 58/59. I plan on building a newer i7, 13th gen desktop (ATX) desktop this year. Not my first, built an older AMD Athlon 800 based desktop in 2002 or so with 512 MB of RAM (the shniz at the time), bought the MD/processor/memory all barely used second hand from a friend that decided to do a major upgrade.
So these days, I zip files via the ether (WiFi) between the desktop and laptop (both Win 11) and can edit videos, use a DAW etc. So while I may be 59, I don't consider myself all that old in comparison to some folks, neurodiveristy be damned.
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One form of 2FA I have is Google, if I sign into an account using Google (many sites have this option), I get a notification on my phone and can just click on the button that says, yes, it's me, et voila, I'm in and does so for the first time I have to sign in, which is regularly due to having to reboot frequently but not always.
Often I'll get an email or text message that says if not me, to contact them, if it is me, then ignore. Not 2FA but it is something.
I have a "vault" of my own and all accounts are coded so I know which is what. Not an official vault, but it's worked for me for a long while.
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I found this out myself when one part goes bad, many other components go with it, not that they also are bad, but one thing affects several others, in other words, at least on Mazdas as that was what I discovered on my protege 5 several years back, ultimately, the timing was just a tad off...
The timing marks on the cams were correct, just not totally level. Fortunately, non interference so no biggie as far as valves go.
Your tenaciousness pays off in a bad section of harness in this case, but in a bad spot as far as the fix itself is concerned. But a hurricane may have to make this wait...
BTW, heard about this storm through Ryan Hall, Y'all on Monday I believe or over the weekend, hints that it might blow up into something.
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Last fall, I had to expectantly replace my computer, an older Dell SFF Optiplex with a newer, but used/refurbished SFF Optiplex, and ended up having to replace the graphics card as the old one, an Invidia GT 610 would not play nice with Windows 11, only to find out why, Ferni, and by extension, Keplar had been depricated, so anything Pascal or later were fine and had the updates for WDDM/DX 12. So had to replace that with the GT 1030.
That begat a monitor replacement. My main monitor is a 1080P Dell workstation monitor I had picked up last spring/summer when the older Dell monitor of similar specs died after being used for over a decade. So then tried to utilize the still working 20" Dell 720P monitor, but the new graphics card had no VGA port, only DVI-D and HDMI. So I replaced that monitor with an Onn brand 22", 60Hz monitor for $80 and could get it locally.
For a 1080P monitor, it's been quite good. the background photos from MS are really good, clean and full of detail.
Yes, the controls are on the bottom edge, but in the middle, and are highlighted by a blue LED when off as the power button is there also.
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A couple of things to think about, ensure your wifi has a password so folks outside the home can't snoop onto your router (freeload) as many signals can be reached from the street at the very least in at least one direction.
The other is your WiFi card in your laptop is either not good, or old, replace/update it. I may need to do that with my now 6 YO laptop, but is based on technology from around 2017, but with the 8th gen i5 processor and built in very early 2019. I can't transfer audio files wirelessly without incurring some interference that disrupts some of the files. Thinking of going wired for that when it's on the docking station. At the moment, it's not as I am using it to read scripts for video projects (post now on one project).
When I do, may find a switch that can carry 1-2G speeds to the desktop, the laptop and a spare desktop for video transferring of old tapes 1000Mbps. I do have a TP Link C80 Archer it's an improvement over the Netgear router I bought 2016 that ceased to see the IP address of my desktop in 2023 so replaced it with the TP Link, it's a better router all around as far as having MEMU or whatever it is functionality, and provides improve coverage at the back of my house, yet the router is in the front bedroom, come office, and that's with the WiFi. Nevermind it's only 5G but the rest is an improvement over what I had previously, and got it on sale for $50.
So it is said that one should replace one's router every 5 years or so anyway due to improvements in WiFi, or it craps out like my Netgear did. I tried multiple times to get it to see the desktop to no avail, thus, the replacement.
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Brian, Not totally agreeing with your guest as one, I don't agree that Biden should never have run. Unfortunately, there was no one else BUT Biden on the Democratic side, whilst there were something like a half dozen contenders, along with Trump on the Republican side. Unfortunately, no one could match the Donald and had to drop out, but that may well have been a plan, so to speak anyway.
I DO think many in the media did try to smother what Biden did, especially in his first 2 years and folks thus forgot what all did go down and was accomplished, even if it at times did not feel like it affected folks much. I felt those changes, and now am the recipient of the ACA due to disabilities, but we need to reign in medical costs for certain as that is part and parcel will go a long way to convincing folks that the ACA is beneficial. That said, I do agree that Biden could have done more to reign in costs overall though.
I'm not one to count my chickens before they hatch and felt the Democrats for demanding Joe to step down, when it seems it was cold medications that affected him at the debate, but when HE decided, on his own terms to step down and then nominate Kamala to run, then I was like, OK then. I voted for her and Tim.
Anyway, seeing already some fallout from those that voted for Trump within individual families, in other words, consequences to their choices as it affects us ALL.
I started out voting for Reagan in 1984 for my first major election as an eligible voter, but by the early 90's switched to Democrat and have been Democrat ever since. Even then, some 30+ years ago, it was obvious that the Republican party was riding roughshod over the Democrats, and the Dems let it all happen by not having any spine to stand up to the other party. I think when JFK went into office in the early 60's, the Democratic party slowly lost touch with the middle class and the Republicans supposedly was for the middle class, but it was all lip service, and has been for 50 years as they jump into bed with the Evangelicals and Fundamentalist right.
While I do prefer the Democrat party, I think they lost the plot by trying to be all cerebral, at times lean too progressive for their own good. If anything, Biden should not have pushed EV's like it was as one, most of us can't afford them, let alone want them and preferred our ICE engined cars, and some are still driving old, high mileage vehicles because one, we can, and must due to the costs of cars now.
Anyway, off my soap box.
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The right is truly cowardly and weak and keep playing fielty to Trump and company, never mind it's likely they are affected as well. Sad.
But if what's being reported is true, Trump and Co. may be in for a rude awakening, let alone the Republicans as protest against them mount and grow.
All this would have been much easier, less stressful if actions had taken placed back when Biden was in office, like Garland doing his duties, shortly after Biden was sworn in. Instead, he took 2 years before anything was done, now we have to deal with all this as the stooge got voted into office, yet again so now, the work to clean up all this mess is now 10X's harder to accomplish.
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Something to be aware of, running out of support OS will, as Leo and I think others have said, make it so some software fails to be supported, once they realize you are running an older out of support OS (anything before Windows 10).
This means most browsers will force you to use an older version that will not play nicely with the web and most websites (ask me how I know this), and Opera, while still supposedly supported and will give you updates for older OS' that are out of support (XP for instance), I have had issues getting it to work, getting the downloader to function, let alone Opera to open up and browser to a website. Also, some software like Audacity will force you to run an older variant of it until you update to a supported OS (Win 10+).
Also, if you keep using older versions of software, just be aware that they will go out of support eventually by the software vendor themselves (Adobe, I'm looking at you). I used to use the CS4 version of the Master Suite and this past fall, had to replace my old PC (a 10 YO Dell Optiplex) for a newer one (it's 6 YO and runs Windows 11) and when I went to install, from DVD, CS4, found out the servers were shut down by Adobe so could not even install it and have now had to find alternatives. So I now run the latest version of Audacity for any DAW jobs, have a temporary work around for editing photos (no Photoshop), you get the idea, and run Libre Office for MS Office and PDGear for all PDF work as I'm not paying a subscription to Adobe for the present creative suite.
So keep that all in mind if you insist on running an old OS like XP or Windows 7.
I had thought about Linux, but when I was still running older Windows based software, finding workarounds for all that was more than I was cared to tackle so stay with Windows. Besides, having run both 10 and 11, I don't find either bad at all.
Certainly, both are way better than Vista. 7 was fine, not familiar with 8-8.1 as I skipped right to 10. Now, to be fair, the 64 bit version of Vista was not all that bad, but I've hears the 32 bit version was worse and accounted for much of the issues with Vista.
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Adam may be a day late as Kenji Lopez-Alt already discovered this back in 2020 when he researched this for Serious Eats.
Conclusion, rinse the rice in the broth, swishing with your fingers or a whisk, , then strain out, reserving the now starched broth, toast the rice until lightly golden, then add the garlic/shallot to the pan, stir until fragrant (1 minute), then add the now starched chicken broth (stirring to mix in the starch that's settled) into pan, yes, pan, he used a 12" skillet, not your normal tall pot, like the typical 4Qt or so sized soup pot, shake the pan to get an even layer across the bottom, add the broth, bring to a boil, then reduce to its lowest setting, covered for 10 minutes, stir, then cover again for the final 10 minutes, then add in the cream and give it a good stir, rice is done.
Read it here, and the recipe is there too. https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-make-perfect-risotto-recipe
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All very good Jay and well needed. I noticed something when "shopping" for new parts for a PC build as I NEED to go on from a now 10 YO Dell SFF optiplex with a Core 15 processor and a wheezy and about as old graphics card with a mere 1G on it (Nvidia GT 610. It was what I had from a previous PC that I had to replace on short notice and it was a decade old and carried the graphics card over as one, it fits the SFF, just). Anyway, I'm not gaming but editing, and was running Premiere Pro CS4 (yes) and then HitFilm but it's future is now uncertain, so now have jumped to (at the moment) Davinci Resolve 12.5.1 as it'll work (yes) on this current box, as long as I do the KISS method and no higher than 1080P.
That said, am if approved will be going with the Intel Core i7, with iGPU/fan, The Nvidia RTX 3060 w/ 12GB, DDR5 memory (32GB), the Z790 based DDR5 motherboard from MSI at minimum with Win 11 and will then jump to DR 18.
I was going to go with Gigabyte but after hearing about their RMA issues, decided to go with MSI, and both had identical specs for their boards, including 2.5GBe ethernet, WiFi 6e, BT 5.3, PCIe 5.0 lane for the graphics card, 4 for the NVME drives, you get the picture. Seems that no matter who builds the boards, it's a tight race, and with identical, or near specs, so it then becomes what board do you like the looks of instead, and the RMA issues, if any.
Total build is going to run somewhere between 1200-1500 bucks, with case and OS. This way, I future proof and not have to do a total upgrade of most of it sooner, rather than later. I'm also thinking eventually outputting to 2K, if not 4K if it comes to that.
Some of my decisions came from inquiring with Blackmagic/Davinci Resolve folks, Richard Lackey and Simon Says for the most part on what Davinci needs and then build it with that in mind and it'll be more than enough for the rest of the software I use.
I just weeded out the cruft and decided on what Davinci needs to run smoothly and costs, finding out that DDR5 does not seem to cost all that much more than DDR4 now for the came memory capacity, and I can get a Z790 based board for 239 or so (MSI), the processor is I think $350 or there abouts, 32GB of RAM (2x16) runs just over $100, and Amazon, Newegg and B&H are very close, within a few bucks of each other, barring any coupons. I'd go with Microcenter, but from what I saw, the choices are not as vast online and there is not a store in Washington State, sadly, and of course, Fry's is long gone, used to have a store here and I've bought stuff from them in the past.
Looks like there is ONE chip, but with various tweaks, like overclocked or not, GPU or not, cooler in the box, or not, but the very same processor per each core model for Intel at least. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this all plays as far as my new build goes.
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I am now working with a buddy to upgrade my aging Dell SFF that is now 10 years old, yes, a 4th gen Core i5 processor and it was supposed to be a short term replacement but 4 years later, here we are... The motherboard I am likely to go with will have everything I've been looking at, and a few that I was not looking at initially. It has WiFi, BT (for the mouse at least), 4 NVME slots, 3 are regular NVME slots, with one that is for the OS/software drive (directly lane to the CPU), has the SPDIF out and DP for the iGPU, Z790 chipset, PCIe5 for the graphics card etc, and it'll set me back 239 or there abouts. I WAS looking at a Gigabyte with almost the exact same features that was a bit more (still less than $300, the Arous? Elite ex or something like that. The board I'm looking at is an MSI Pro Z790. I decided on the MSI after hearing not so good news about Gigabyte having terrible issues with RMAing the boards and how poor they handle the issue.
I felt that was a reasonable price, of $250 or so for a board. I'm sure for less features, one can get a board for less. Yes, both boards are for DDR5 (trying to future proof) for editing so no need to upgrade for a while, outside of upping the memory down the line from 32 to 64GB. Both take Sata III with 6 headers that share the lanes with the NVME's. I'd use the SATA for long term storage of video projects as I can stick spinners in there and have NVME for all projects in progress, including scratch disks.
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@jwalker7567 I don't think that's correct. We have split phase 240 in the US, which is for dryers, stoves etc that need a full 240V. For my dryer (electric), the heating element needs both sides of the 240V to work and I don't think we even have 10Amp in new construction/electrical upgrades now either. My house is old, initially built in 1908 and likely didn't have electricity initially and may have had gas lighting for a while in the beginning, maybe a hybrid of both. Anyway, 2 additional bedrooms were added to augment the single bedroom it had in the mid 80's and the electrical service was upgraded to modern 200A/240V service but using a Federal Pacific circuit breaker panel which were a known issue even then, but still installed in thousands of homes at the time. I had it replaced when I bought the place in 2016 for the reason of it being an unsafe design.
Anyway, the dryer requires both halves of the 120V, though technically, it's really 122V per side so 244V total to make the heating element work, so when the timer began to go, half the time I got no heat. Then the following year, the start switch for the dryer motor went bad and it killed one side of the split phase 240V, disabling the heating element to even operate.
Once I cleaned the contacts and put it all back together, it's been working just fine.
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Wow... Just wow. Who'd da thunk that these idiots, normals, so called, are so gullible to Trump's lies.
Trump is a Narc, a malignant one at that, and he uses everyone, including the rich for his own gain. When he has used them up, they become useless to him and he will discard them like trash. Yet, they hang onto his every word. Likely, many may have cognitive issues of their own.
Irony is, I have disabilities, and intellectual disability is one of them, along with autism and I CAN SEE THROUGH TRUMPS BULLSHIT.
He's a grifter of the first order. I prefer he be dead instead, but also know that we need proper closure in this country, so let's send him to jail and live out his miserable life, and it's looking like the first domino may be falling. He can't post bond, Latitia now can go after his properties. Good riddance.
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I don't know why GM is insisting on doing this cylinder activation thing, they keep failing, going all the way back to 1981 with the 8-6-4 motors that ran one year. Derrick of VGG got one running and I forget if he deactivated his or not. I think he did. Anyway, good luck with it.
Loved how yesterday, you tried to get the Cobalt on the ramps and failed, the hood drops down. I thought it funny.
I am dealing with a broken car myself now. My 2003 Mazda Protege 5 wagon with the non interference 2.0L 4 pot is still hanging in there, but the front end is wonky when it did "battle" with ice/black ice doing a left turn and lost, sliding into the curb, hitting it with the face of the wheel. I think I will use my magnetic mount and GoPro to see if that right front wheel is out of true as it turns (in/out) while I slowly run it around the block. I need to figure out how to get the smaller sized floor jack from the 'Freight up a tad higher for the jack stands to fit so I can safely get under it and remove the shield that's underneath the motor so I can see the tie rods, steering rack etc.
Wish me luck... BTW, have over 200K on this old thing too.
BTW, I enjoy your positive attitude, especially in these trying times. As a neurodivergent, living on SSDI, while I'm not panicking yet, I am keeping an eye on things as far as my SSDI payments drop next week, IF it drops that is. I refuse to be all pessimistic until it actually happens, but the worry is in the background anyway. So far, no notifications in the SSDI website or in the mail. I just hope I'm not being too pollyanna-ish about it however.
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